Allan H. Meltzer Quotes
There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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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.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
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The explosive growth of the for-profit school industry has had disastrous effects on millions of Americans and our economy.
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There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
