Quotes 8261 till 8280 of 12035.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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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.
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The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro -
The end of birth is death; the end of death Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou, Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls Which could not otherwise befall?
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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