Emily Oster Quotes
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Our work is never over.
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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
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This acting was very hard work.
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As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.
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Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The wages of gin is breath.
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Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.
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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
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If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
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I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
