"...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it."

-- George Stigler

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“Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.”
“I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.”
“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”
“Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.”
“I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.”
“You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.”

Source : Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK
“Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.”
“The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.”

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