Tim Harford Quotes

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment bank's name on business television is to hire a guy called a Chief Economist who will go and prognosticate.

Tim Harford

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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

John Calvin

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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

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What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.

Jeph Loeb

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Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

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For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Anand Gopal

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You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

Tommy Lee Jones

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What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

Tom Heinsohn

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I grew up going to bakeries in Tel Aviv; that's where we got our birthday cakes, they were always European baking and butter creams. We have such good baking in Israel, and we have the Diaspora of Jews from all over, and we learned early on to adapt and absorb flavors from all over.

Ron Ben-Israel

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It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.

Mike Posner

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There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Jon Krakauer

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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Dennis Flanagan

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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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