"The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past."

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Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

Frank Knight

#Past Quotes #Swag Quotes #Identity Quotes

“There is a proliferation of terrorism as a result of the war in Iraq. What America has created is a den for terrorists to breed in Iraq as a result of the war and to ship their ideologies and their fears and their capabilities around the world, not just in the Middle East, but in other continents.”
“I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.”

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“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
“As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.”
“It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.”
“Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.”
“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.”
“Now I become myself. Itâ€™s taken time, many years and places.”

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