Douglass North Quotes
In some respects this is intended to be a revolutionary book, but in other respects it is very traditional indeed. It is revolutionary in that we have developed a comprehensive analytical framework to examine and explain the rise of the Western world; a framework consistent with and complementary to standard neoclassical economic theory.Douglass North
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Ralph Baer -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar -
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
Pablo Sandoval -
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks -
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
Gary Bauer -
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
Frances McDormand
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith -
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I'm the only gay person my parents know.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde -
High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
Kate Brown
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I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.
Jane Green -
I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.
Peter T. King -
Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.
Uesugi Kenshin -
I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
Oscar Pistorius -
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
Victor Pinchuk -
In some respects this is intended to be a revolutionary book, but in other respects it is very traditional indeed. It is revolutionary in that we have developed a comprehensive analytical framework to examine and explain the rise of the Western world; a framework consistent with and complementary to standard neoclassical economic theory.
Douglass North