Arthur Cecil Pigou Quotes
If it were not for the hope that a scientific study of men's social actions may lead, not necessarily directly or immediately, but at some time and in some way, to practical results in social improvement, not a few students of these actions would regard the time devoted to their study as time misspent. That is true of all social sciences, but especially true of economics. For economics "is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life"; and it is not in the ordinary business of life that mankind is most interesting or inspiring.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
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Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
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Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
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There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
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My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
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I rest my proteins in their liquid when I am done with the heat braise.
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When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.
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If it were not for the hope that a scientific study of men's social actions may lead, not necessarily directly or immediately, but at some time and in some way, to practical results in social improvement, not a few students of these actions would regard the time devoted to their study as time misspent. That is true of all social sciences, but especially true of economics. For economics "is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life"; and it is not in the ordinary business of life that mankind is most interesting or inspiring.
