Kenneth Arrow Quotes
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I think everybody's got a malicious side.
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Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they are judging my book by its cover or by preconceived notions.
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That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
