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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. People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age but I've never done what everyone says.
  • 2. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
  • 3. Reason is a crutch for age but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.
  • 2. The things that people do now in sports you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
  • 3. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
  • 2. I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger or I'd have to accept that it happened.
  • 3. The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
  • 2. There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.
  • 3. My house is my refuge an emotional piece of architecture not a cold piece of convenience.
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