Arnold Kling Quotes
Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.
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If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.
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You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
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I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
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Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
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Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
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We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
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No victor believes in chance.
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No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
