Simon Kuznets Quotes
War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
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I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.
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What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
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We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
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Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
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My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money, too.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
