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Gary Becker Quotes

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Gary Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1930 - May 3, 2014

Topics

Family Past Changes Cultures Modern

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know Themselves Learned Ever Fully

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

Jenny Slate

Me Challenges Feel Difficult Scared

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

Music Time Art Silence Rhythm Point

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Andris Nelsons

Proud Boston Orchestra Symphony Very

Some people are more terrorist than others.

John Keegan

People Others More Some People Than

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

Jeff Fortenberry

Think America Congress Out I Think

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Jeff Goodell

Government Win American Political

We can invent only with memory.

Alphonse Karr

Memory Only Invent

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

Sonny Sandoval

Rock And Roll Edge Rock Become More

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

Jason Robert Brown

Genius Jury Out Still Whether

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

Donald Trump

Born Where Like He Does Issue

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

Christian de Duve

Change Success Children Energy You