Quotes with child-like

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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Beau Willimon The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • William Nicholson The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
    Motherland (2012)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • John Berger The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • John Fischer The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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  • Lydia M. Child The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Confucius The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marcel Proust The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Paine The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Isadora Duncan The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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