Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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'You’re actually a soldier,' he said to me, 'and you go along with this foolishness?''I didn’t ask to be a soldier. And I can’t imagine a peace as foolish as this war we’re in.'
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We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
