- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
- Good-Paying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
- Enmity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
- Lean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020