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• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  Milton Friedman

  Political, Misery, Forget

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Views, People

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• He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Data, Nfl

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• A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.

  Amory Lovins

  Simple, Energy, Payback

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• The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white folks for two contradictory reasons. First, he constantly proclaims his belief in human equality, but they don’t. Second, he has a high IQ, but they don’t.

  Steve Sailer

  Two, White, People

  "Americans First". www.theamericanconservative.com. February 13, 2006.

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• If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

  Alcee Hastings

  War, Past, Years

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• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  M. John Harrison

  Fun, Opportunity, Imagination

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• The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smart, Rocks

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• Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

  Auberon Waugh

  Simple, London, Strange

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

  David Geffen

  War, Mistake, Clinton

  Interview with Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, February 21, 2007.

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• My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fun, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Play, Three

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• If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

  Ben Bernanke

  Population, Generations, Trends

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• An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
  The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mother, Art, Mean

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press

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• If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Rushing, Records, Jimmy

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• Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

  Sean Avery

  Running, League, Guy

  Sean Avery (2017). “Offside: My Life Crossing the Line”, p.158, Penguin

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• We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

  Paz Vega

  Dancer, Singers, Actresses

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• If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

  Michael D. Barnes

  War, Home, Two

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• If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Average, Goal, Wages

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• Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Men, Politician, Unusual

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• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Champion, Modesty

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Walmart

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Choices, Reports

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.

  Jesus Huerta de Soto

  Government, Views, Greek

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