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Action Quotes by Milton Friedman
- By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the…
- Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
- Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that…
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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