William Vickrey Quotes
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
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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 mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.
William Weld
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
Vanity
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People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.
Emilio Pucci
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Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.
Tommy Chong
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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
Tony Kushner
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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