Merton Miller Quotes
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
Quotes to Explore
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.
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The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.
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It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.
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I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'
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At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.
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Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.
