Eric Maskin Quotes
In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.
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There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
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In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
