“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.” PeopleIfsShouldRunningPastBeliefCausesStepsRiskTroubleChangedRegretNormalTradeHistorianMistakenVocationConservatism Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.” IfsPurposeTroubleTradeSavedOrganizeMake You HappyMonetaryBypass Author:Derek Sivers
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.” IfsLittlesLanguageTroubleConversationTravelAccountsTradeForeignersTravellerOwingGood ConversationBad Language Author:Laurence Sterne
“Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore.We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.” EndsCountryCareWinningMillionsTakenTroubleMilitaryCarSeriousBeatsTradeChinaOur CountryBordersJapanMexicoObamacareVets Author:Donald Trump