Douglass North Quotes
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
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The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.
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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
