"The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone."

-- Milton Friedman

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“Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.”
“When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.”

Source : "Liverpool profit will service new owners' loan" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2007.
“Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.”
“The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.”

Source : Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1969). “The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy”, p.299, Open Court Publishing
“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
“I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity”

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.
“After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”

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