Ethan Peck Quotes

I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course.

Ethan Peck

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• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • inspirational
  • Healthy
  • Bottom

• The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Country
  • Decision
  • Wise

• I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

  

  Van Jones
  • American
  • Community

• Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Cool
  • Angry
  • Passionate

• If the vision is there, the means will follow.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Mean
  • Vision
  • Ifs

• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Economic

• The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Party
  • Discipline
  • Half

• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  

  William Harvey
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Thinking
  • Justice
  • Influence

• The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Politics
  • Conflict
  • Solved

• Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

  

  William Falconer
  • Sea
  • Said
  • Courses

• The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Eagles
  • Abrupt note

• I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Point Of View
  • Photographers

• Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

  

  Belva Plain
  • Music
  • Europe
  • Flowers

• I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • American
  • Study
  • African-American

• Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Work
  • Job
  • Growth

• A useful role exists for the economist is making calculations of the prospective costs and/or benefits of alternative policies. This role is precisely the one Keynes had in mind, I assume, when he expressed the hope that we would become useful after the fashion of dentists.

  

  George Stigler
  • Cost
  • Policies
  • Economist

• I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course.

  

  Ethan Peck
  • Scientist
  • Economist