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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman

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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesnt run on greed? You think Russia doesnt run on greed? You think China doesnt run on greed? What is greed? – Milton Friedman

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Society
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Milton Friedman
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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Milton Friedman
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My musical knowledge is so bad its embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. – Jane Campion

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Knowledge

Even though Im a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so Im looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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Knowledge

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. – Harrison Salisbury

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Knowledge

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken

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Knowledge

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. – Author Unknown

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I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. – Michelle Trachtenberg

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World War II has always been of great interest to me. Ive known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into. – Harry Browne

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