William Vickrey Quotes
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
Samuel Beckett
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
Saint Basil
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Ted Turner
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
Saint Basil
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
Daniel Craig
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
Rachelle Lefevre
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
Oliver Hudson
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. Salinger
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi
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I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
Eli Wallach
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The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.
Rachel Sklar
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I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Jim Hodges
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There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.
Jill Scott
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
William Vickrey