Ray Dalio Quotes
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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I like game shows.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
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A laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.
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You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
