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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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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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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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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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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I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Good is often the enemy of best.
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I think there's this new kind of character; it's a sidekick-slash-leading man role. People like Zach Galifianakis and Seth Rogen have been really successful in those roles. You don't have to be this square-jawed, chiseled, deep-voiced Superman; you can be funny and normal and put in the leading man category.
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While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.
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I used to rush home to see 'Match Of The Day.' Whatever I was doing, I wouldn't miss it.
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I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.
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We all can do our part to address America's anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love.
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
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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.
