Eric Maskin Quotes

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Eric Maskin

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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

Ingrid Newkirk
- People
- America
- Free
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

G. Willow Wilson
- People
- Ideas
- Fight
I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

Ram Charan
- Work
- Wish
- Human
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Octavia E. Butler
- People
- Attitude
- Changes
My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

Carla Hall
- People
- Food
- Kitchen
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Laura Linney
- People
- Attention
- Some