Douglass North Quotes
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Pedicures are disgraceful.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
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People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
