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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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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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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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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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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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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There needs to be an allegiance to the United States and what this country stands for.
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I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
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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.
