Institute of Economics - The main research is focused on problems of the national economy and the outcome is distributed in scientific journals and to the wider audience of practitioner, to the whole population.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Social Sciences "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Social Sciences
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Social Sciences It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Social Sciences
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Social Sciences "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Social Sciences
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Social Sciences The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Social Sciences
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Social Sciences "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Social Sciences
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Social Sciences I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Social Sciences
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Social Sciences No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Social Sciences
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Social Sciences "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Social Sciences
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Social Sciences Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Social Sciences
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Social Sciences The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Social Sciences
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Social Sciences Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Social Sciences
