The ultimate test of any economic theory is whether it improves real-world decisions.
If you want to grow, you must first learn to adapt.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
The art of diplomacy is to understand desires of others and to find a way, where they think they get what they want.
The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.