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• Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions

  Douglass North

  Mean, Errors, Keys

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• It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Different Opinions, Imperfect

  "On Liberty: Mill's Works".

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• America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Commitment, Government, Organization

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• What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, Goal, Trying

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

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• Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Science, May, Spirituality

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere, even though we have no clear idea of what the biological or meteorological consequences may be.

  Frank Sherwood Rowland

  Ideas, May, Way

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• When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

  Anthony Romero

  Immigration, Prejudice, Stills

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• I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Weed, Marijuana, Youth

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• What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

  Tom Brokaw

  Weed, Marijuana, People

  "Brokaw on Politics & Pot" by Chris Ariens, www.adweek.com. January 29, 2008.

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• We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

  Robert Menzies

  Party, Believe, Rights

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• The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."

  Potter Stewart

  Race, Government, Practice

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• Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confused, Confusion, Confusing

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• Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

  George Washington

  Vices, Impossible, Human Nature

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Degrees

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.176

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• Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

  George Washington

  Honesty, Being The Best, Found

  George Washington, J. M. Williams (1800). “Washington's political legacies: To which is annexed an appendix, containing an account of his illness, death, and the national tributes of respect paid to his memory, with a biographical outline of his life and character”, p.26

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• We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Home, Bird, Sailing

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• The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honourable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.

  James Madison

  Determination, Government, Self

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.

  George Washington

  Country, Eye, Exercise

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.226

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• Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.

  Simone Weil

  Data, Limits, Mathematics

  "The Notebooks of Simone Weil".

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Party, Power, Should Have

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

  Dan Jenkins

  Music, Eye, Body

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• The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

  W. H. Auden

  Practice, Justice, Politics

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• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Embrace, Hypothesis

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• We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

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• I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fashion, Differences, Balls

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