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.Simon Kuznets
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk -
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Rachael Harris -
Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
Lana Turner
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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.
Gavyn Davies -
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.
Wade Guyton -
What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
Rachel Grace Held -
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Oscar Wilde -
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Collis Potter Huntington -
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
O. S. Hawkins
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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.
Ian Mcewan -
Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
Jane Rosenthal -
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.
Plato -
No one does wrong voluntarily.
Socrates -
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
Albert Einstein -
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary Mantel
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
Park Chan-wook -
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
Michelle Shocked -
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.
David Lack -
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.
Simon Kuznets