Aggregate Excess Demand

Famous quotes containing the words aggregate, excess and/or demand:

    “a fortress against ideas and against the
    Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
    The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
    Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure—tangible material prosperity in this world—is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)