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January 19, 2016 at 4:56 PMMichele Mottini

What would you do if someone planted a dark chocolate patch in your backyard and would not have you try it?

My daughter, reply to my wife complains about the deer eating her flowers

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January 1, 2016 at 8:20 PMMichele Mottini

Economists don’t forecast because they know, they forecast because they are asked

John K. Galbraith quoted by The Economist in Low and behold

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September 28, 2014 at 11:23 AMMichele Mottini

these days, if I need any coding done, I use the extremely high-level programming language called “undergrad”

Scott Aaronson in Do theoretical computer scientists despise practitioners?

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May 23, 2014 at 4:45 PMMichele Mottini

…Mr Broun, who accuses Mr Obama of wanting to uphold the Soviet constitution—one of several remarks that might baffle swing voters.

The Economist in ‘Squawk before you can run’

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May 11, 2014 at 6:34 PMMichele Mottini

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested

 

Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted by The Economist in ‘Beware of europhoria’

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April 12, 2014 at 6:30 PMMichele Mottini

I was hoping for a happy ending

My wife, after finishing watching ‘Hamlet’

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April 5, 2014 at 10:51 AMMichele Mottini

Being in love is easy, being married is not

Ma Yili, wife of Chinese actor Wen Zhang,  quoted by The Economist

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March 29, 2014 at 11:04 AMMichele Mottini

. . . Dr Abdullah Abdullah . . . who got his second name only because newspaper sub-editors in the West could not contend with his lack of a surname.

The Economist in ‘Runners and riders’

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March 9, 2014 at 11:00 AMMichele Mottini

It is a matter insufficiently appreciated that there are very few high-wire acts without a safety net

Brad DeLong in his blog

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February 23, 2014 at 5:05 PMMichele Mottini

In Brazil even the past is unpredictable

Pedro Malan, former Brazilian finance minister, quoted by The Economist in ‘The past is epilogue’

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