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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
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I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.


Lynn Collins
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
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If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
Giovanni Ribisi
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Gottfried Leibniz
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I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.
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My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
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I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
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I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.


Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
Ursula Dubosarsky
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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Johannes Rau
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
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The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.
Robert Kennedy
One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
Steven Seagal
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Gloria Swanson
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I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
Angela Bassett