Anni

“The prevalence of lawyers in American life is unusual. But their dominance at the top of American politics is startling. “Though they make up less than 1 percent of the population, lawyers currently constitute more than one-third of the House of Representatives and more than half the Senate. Fully half of the last ten presidents were lawyers, as are more than a third of the officials now serving in the states as governor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state,”
― Ezra Klein, Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

“those who complain too much can't hear nice noises.”
― Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

“How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Burned by regulations and inattention to cost-effective production, basic elevators cost four times more in New York City than in Switzerland.”
― Ezra Klein, Abundance