What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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As a result of the efforts of Hayek. . and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

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My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul. "

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Paul McCartney

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

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Emma Goldman

Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

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Jackie Robinson

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

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Irving Kristol

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