Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

Stephen J. Dubner

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It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

Jerrold Nadler

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When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.

Joe Torre

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Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

Robert Grosseteste

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You better be looking for another pitcher.

Jeff Cooper

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Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

Method Man

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Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Steny Hoyer

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I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

Travis Scott

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What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

Rod Lurie

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I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

Ruth Rendell

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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.

Mary Jo White

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I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

Martin Rees

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Beware thoughts that come in the night.

William Least Heat-Moon

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