David Autor Quotes

If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.

David Autor

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PowerGreatThinkYouLaborHuman

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

John Boyd Orr

CommunicationTimeSmallCountryNow

I have no desire to become a crossover artiste, singing with microphones. I believe in opera; that it is something that young people would love if they had a chance to hear it.

Anna Netrebko

LovePeopleSingingBelieveChance

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Stephen Hawking

TimeSpaceDirectionBehaveLike

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

Spalding Gray

GoodMeSkiingBetterYouSex

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

Stipe Miocic

GoMeanHappenAnythingThingsGuy

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

DeathHeavenReunionPartingEvery

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

WomenYouGoAfghanistanOutUp

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.

Michelle Malkin

ThinkValuesDownAdmirePersonal

I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

DMX

MeDisrespectYouGoing

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

Donny Hathaway

MusicStyleThinkYouI CanKnow

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.

Anthony McCarten

MeBibleHouseTelevisionPoorUp

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

Ashley Scott

AgePeopleMeSharksYoungLiving

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