Bertil Ohlin Quotes
To me it is a riddle that Knut Wicksell, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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To me it is a riddle that Knut Wicksell, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.
