Arthur Cecil Pigou Quotes
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
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Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
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I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
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An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.
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If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
