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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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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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
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The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
