"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."

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Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

Frank Knight

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“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”
“It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.”
“It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.”
“I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.”

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“I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.”
“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.”
“I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.”
“[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.”

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