Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public, in transportation facilities, in theaters and other public amusements and in the selection of juries—passed both chambers. The measure reached the White House about the time the two sides in Louisiana cobbled a compromise that allowed Grant to withdraw Sheridan and most of the federal troops. On March 1, 1875, the president signed the Civil Rights Act, the most ambitious affirmation of racial equality in American history...
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For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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I'll take any story if it's good.
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Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
