You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited.
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The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian
Quoted in Listener (14 Dec 1939)
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But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.
