Paul Samuelson (Paul Anthony Samuelson) Quotes
The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.
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There is not, in my view, a single European demos.
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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
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I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.
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Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.
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To return to levels consistent with price stability in coming quarters.
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
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When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
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He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.
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I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.
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There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.
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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.
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. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
