"One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for."

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Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

Robert H. Frank

#Jobs Quotes #School Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”
“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“Academic theology is false.”
“Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.194, Rowman & Littlefield
“A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.”

Source : "NATE SILVER TO JON STEWART: 'People Are Too Hyper About The Polls'" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2012.
“I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.”

Source : "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.
“I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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