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Alex Tabarrok has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to…
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If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times…
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Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative…
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Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages…
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think…
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Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract,…
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Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents…
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It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great…
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Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is…
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More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since…
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As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
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The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw…
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The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have…
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology…
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Nature is only another chimera.
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Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative…
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I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
— Adolf Hitler
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