"Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter……" — Julian Baggini
"Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all."
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110 Quotes by Julian Baggini
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I am only me for practical purposes.
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Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
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Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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