"Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom."

-- Milton Friedman

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“So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.”
“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press
“I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that...particular...place.”
“Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.”
“Since 2007, we've been giving one dollar, one euro - whatever the local currency - of every ticket sold to Partners In Health and Kanpe. I think if you have a working band, that's about the easiest thing you can do - you just set it up and let it work!”
“Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.”
“If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"”
“Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?”

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