The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Irving Kristol
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despite the fact that the American Revolution was successful–realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime–while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.
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Tyler Cowen
Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.
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Tyler Cowen
The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.
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Frank Knight
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.
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Frank Knight
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.
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Norman Podhoretz
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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Paul Feyerabend
Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge.