Merton Miller Quotes
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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Don’t be friends with jerks.
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Watching the TCU game and critiquing it Sunday on tape, we just weren't very physical up front. TCU just outplayed and outcoached us.
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Pincher took me to London, and Knobbie brought me away. It looked as if I were beginning to be led about by dogs.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.
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I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
