Distributional coalitions slow down a society’s capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.
― Mancur Olson
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There is properly no history; only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
~ Immanuel Kant
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
― Ansel Adams
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Microsoft acquired Skype on this day in 2011
Microsoft aquired Skype on this day – May 10 – in 2011.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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