"Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure."

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Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.139, Oxford University Press

Paul Collier

#Law Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Peers Quotes

“I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.”
“In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.”
“I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.”
“MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!”
“Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.”

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“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.”
“I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.”
“Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.”

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