"Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent."

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Source : "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

Allan H. Meltzer

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Grace Quotes

“If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.”
“Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.”
“You have to respect all your competitors.”
“People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.”
“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”
“So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan
“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.”

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