Julian Baggini Quotes

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Julian Baggini

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LoveWifeYouMeasureTryThings

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

John Caudwell

HappinessHealthMoneyDayWorld

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleYouBackHugKnowAustralia

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

John Hunt Morgan

LossCompanyHeavyBeenOfficers

In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on federal investments to maintain and upgrade their transportation systems and stay competitive. And we know that it's an investment worth making. Because when rural America succeeds, we all do.

Amy Klobuchar

AmericaTransportationWorthCountry

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Tom Reiss

PainWorldEnoughLostEducated

I was hesitant to do 'Mulan II.' For me, I felt like the story that needed to be told, this legendary character of Mulan, was already encompassed in the first movie, and I was worried they would try to create this crazy cartoon character out of this legendary character of China.

Ming-Na Wen

CharacterMeCrazyStoryCreateTry

Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.

Shawn Amos

SuccessTechnologyResultGoogle

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Noam Chomsky

PowerYourselfPeopleCareYouTry

The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don't let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.

Ryan Holiday

WorkBestSleepLimitsSayProtect

Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.

Murray Rothbard

ScienceDressWitRealUpModern

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Kenneth Koch

GoodLiveAdvertisingWorldEnough

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

HomeGreatEasyAnimalsWildAlways

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