Richard Thaler Quotes
Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.
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In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.
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My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.
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Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.
