Tyler Cowen Quotes
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
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Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.
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I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
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As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.
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The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
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Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
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I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.
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I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
