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Maurice Allais Quotes

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Maurice Allais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: May 31, 1911 - October 9, 2010

Topics

Education History Physics Finally

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

Joaquin Phoenix

Liberating Once Total Became

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

Change Facts Ignore Want Fit Easier

I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do.

Joe Wurzelbacher

God Path Me Fall Know Hard

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John F. Kennedy

Children Care Minds Plumbing See

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

Ana Navarro

Opportunities Brand Thinking Try Sit

There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough to stop me from doing it.

Tom Holland

Me Doing Enough You Stop Hard

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

Mother Want Talk Always Her Even

Seeing is in itself a movement.

Robert Delaunay

Seeing Movement Itself

I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'

Mary Berry

Cake People Think You Person Want

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

Jay London

Funny Dog Free Over Started Roll

I remember looking out into the sea of phone lights as Chris Martin belted 'Yellow' on the piano and deciding that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

Daya

Life Sea Yellow Looking Rest Phone

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

Chris Hayes

Politics Up Where Household Grew