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Arthur M. Schlesinger
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Robert C. Savage
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.
Robert C. Savage
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Jean Paul-Sartre
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
Robert W. Sarnoff
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
Thomas J. Sargent
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
Thomas J. Sargent
Those papers found the cross-equation restrictions on a VAR for money and prices by reverse engineering a joint process for which Cagan's adaptive expectations formula delivers optimal forecasts.
Thomas J. Sargent
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Thomas J. Sargent
There is a communism of models. All agents inside the model, the econometrician, and God sharethe same model.