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Romney’s chances are going down, and the convention hurt him.
Better to be lucky than good.
Apocryphal
U.S. Economy Picks Up Pace, Averting a Stall - Shaila Dawan
Shaila Dawan via NY Times
The most skeptical economists simply dismissed the Commerce Department’s report. The first estimate of gross domestic product is subject to revisions that can be substantial — growth in the first quarter of this year, for example, was initially reported to be at a 1.8 percent annual rate. That was later adjusted down to 0.4 percent.
Nouriel Roubini, the chairman and co-founder of Roubini Global Economics, said he expected the third quarter estimate would undergo a similar downward revision. By his calculations, Dr. Roubini said, the growth rate in the quarter was closer to 1 percent.
We are not out of the woods yet.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell
The end of despots is always odd—exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.
Fouad Ajami, Gadhafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance
by Lemony Snicket | OccupyWriters.com
Read all thirteen…
(via deepthinking)
(Source: files.neilgaiman.com, via deepthinking)
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
Douglas Huebler
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