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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

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Friedrich August von Hayek
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Category: Society

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
  • 2. And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age I don't have time to be bored.
  • 3. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them not all of them.
  • 2. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.
  • 3. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.

3 Anger

  • 1. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
  • 2. I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
  • 3. The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 3. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 2. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
  • 3. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society with politics with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society how it functions how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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