Tyler Cowen Quotes

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

Tyler Cowen

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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

John Burroughs

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Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and more vital relation to nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure.

John Burroughs

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I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

John McCain

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It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.

John Higgins

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Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

Jeanne Moreau

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Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.

John Sandford

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Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

John Ridley

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I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

Trisha Goddard

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Rod Stewart

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An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

Roberta Williams

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I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.

Romeo Santos

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