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“Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

“In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. In our modern society this is emphatically so.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

“A likeable bigot, though, some misguided people would say, apart from being an oxymoron is also a moron.”
― Naomi Datta, How to Be a Likeable Bigot: A Handbook for the Savvy Survivor