David Douglass Quotes
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.
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I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
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Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
