Angus Deaton Quotes
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
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We convince by our presence.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
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We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
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The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
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'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'
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It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.
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All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.
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I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.
