Pavel Ivanov

"per aspera ad astra" (Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor) "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex." (Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower) "si vis pasem, para bellum" "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." (John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes) "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." (Friedrich August von Hayek) "God made everything out of nothing, but nothingness shows through." (Paul Valery)