Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Carl Sagan
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I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
Kangana Ranaut
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
Tamora Pierce
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Look! A see-through wall of glass! 22
Ze Frank
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence-to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Ayn Rand
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
Lewis H. Lapham
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.
Laeta Kalogridis
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I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
Jamie Bell
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Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.
Jane Lindskold
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The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.
Ardyth Kennelly
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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
Bruce Johnston
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'Every man is a poet'
Charles Bukowski
