Angry people are not always wise.
Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age". . . In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to be in a growing economy.
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together.