“In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.” LongFactsRunningEconomicMovementActivityIncreaseResponseRateFirmBordersLong RunsTradingStrengthening Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.” WayLongArtNovelTasteStandardsArt IsInnovationCriticsConvictionSignificantOne WayFirmProvocationStandards Set Author:Leo Steinberg
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.” ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms Author:Alain de Botton
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.” LongMomentsSeemsHoursLove IsStruggleClearVictoryTestsDefeatConvictionFirmReasoningIronGatesResolutionIrrevocableSophistryAfter Hours Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot