Milton Friedman Quotes
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.Milton Friedman
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen -
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett -
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
Hailey Bieber -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
Ice T -
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Felicia Day -
I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
Ed Sheeran -
I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
Victoria Osteen -
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
Beck -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand -
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
Larry Kramer -
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
Lakshmi Mittal -
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
Saint Basil
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams -
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen -
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
Plato -
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman