Maurice Allais Quotes

#1. My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

#2. Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.

Veronika Varekova

#3. I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

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#5. It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

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#6. a towering mass of lust-provoking maleness.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#7. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.

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#8. Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

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#9. I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

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#10. You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

Louisa May Alcott

#11. Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

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#12. People who are jerks don't get to decide whether they're jerks. It's left up to a jury of their peers.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

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#14. In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

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#15. It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.

Frederick Lenz

#16. We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

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#17. In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

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#18. My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

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#19. C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Bertrand Meyer

#20. A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

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#21. All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

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#22. I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

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#23. Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.

Trudi Canavan

#24. The child is free to live out their own destiny.

Shefali Tsabary

#25. Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

Mark Sisson

#26. I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

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#27. I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

Lisa Kleypas

#28. Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

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#29. I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Sam Walton

#30. It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.

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#31. The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

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#32. It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.

Bill Rancic

#33. I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.

Stan Collymore

#34. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Martin Luther

#35. In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

Maurice Allais