Carl Menger Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.
