Esther Duflo Quotes
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
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I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
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There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
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Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.
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Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
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You must be aware that most men, and also not only a few women, are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
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When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.
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Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
