"...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature."

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Source : Harold Hotelling (2012). “The Collected Economics Articles of Harold Hotelling”, p.52, Springer Science & Business Media

Harold Hotelling

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“There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.”
“Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.”

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“Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.”
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
“I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.”

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“[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.”
“When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.”
“It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.”

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