We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. … - Will Rogers

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I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

Will Rogers

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.

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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

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Always drink upstream from the herd.

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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

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Noam Chomsky

Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.

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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.

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Edward C. Prescott

I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

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