Steven Levitt (Steven David "Steve" Levitt) Quotes
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
Steven Levitt
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Walter Raleigh
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Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Oh my gravy!
Rachael Ray
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Edward Young
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
Bruce Lee
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The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
Zendaya
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The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, or, in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
Alexander Hamilton
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory
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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
Steven Levitt