David D. Friedman Quotes
Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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My life is scheduled to the minute. I used to be notoriously hard to get a hold of. But now, it would be irresponsible for me to say, 'I'm not checking my phone.'
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Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.
