Vernon L. Smith Quotes
It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
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I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.
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If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.
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It is not possible to design a laboratory resource allocation experiment without designing an institution in all its detail.
