Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
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Related Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the... ERIC MASKIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore. DAN HAWKINS A soulmate will never leave you. They will always be apart of your life until one day the chance is ... FAYE HALL Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don'... CHRISTOPHER LASCH If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich ... ROBERT J. SHILLER Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ... BERNHARD SCHLINK When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave... BERNIE SIEGEL We have to wait. We have to decide in another month what to do. But it will be another year until we... BRIAN FOSTER I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one da... ERIC BRISTOW We have always had to be patient, and we will just have to wait one more day. BARRY RANDALL So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Ver... HOD LIPSON It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wai... LINDA FIORENTINO Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are thin... SHARI ARISON Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out ... RICH MOORE I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are. BRYANT GUMBEL You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are al... LARRY DIXON People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. S... HA-JOON CHANG Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and l... LAURA HARRING I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a sta... FREDDY ADU We've had several guys sign already and several more will later on, but it all comes down to the men... COOPER FARRIS I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I... CLAUDIO RANIERI Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa... TONY BUZAN I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day. CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav... JOHN C. MAXWELL We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t... GREG JOHNSON You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just pr... PARIS HILTON Take nothing or no one for granted, for what is predictable today will one day become unpredictable ... E. L. MCDOWELL I love coffee, but I have to make sure I don't have more than one cup a day because I'm alre... ELLIE KEMPER No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have ... J.D. STROUBE The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategi... CHARLES J. GIVENS If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. HENRY MILLER I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - ... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I have already stated that we cannot start signing contracts worth millions of rands until we have b... HELEN ZILLE If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... ERNST FISCHER I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already kn... EDEN HAZARD There is housing out there. The problem is, a lot of it is unaffordable. For those who are disabled,... BOB HEBERT Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a ... THOMAS PIKETTY I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be... SAMMY SOSA Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A l... MARIO BATALI Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have b... DENIS WAITLEY Typically, consumers are waiting for all kinds of deals before they go out and purchase an automobil... BRIAN FABBRI Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are. CARL A. HAMMERSCHLAG People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purpose... NEAL STEPHENSON There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write ... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together.
There... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then u... MARK TWAIN The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my ... JESSICA CHASTAIN I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are i... DAVE MATTHEWS Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I wish I could see them at once, but I have to wait till they return Feb 8. Until then Allah will he... SALIM AHMED Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's cru... RUSH LIMBAUGH I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb. BOBBY KNIGHT We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough res... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN We don?t want to keep these girls in captivity forever. But they also can?t be placed in the wild un... DR. GWEN MYERS I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d... JOSHUA LEDERBERG In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for vote... PETE GALLEGO I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never ... MARIO ANDRETTI The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don... MIKE NICHOLS I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have ... SIA The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all ... YAHOO SERIOUS Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ALBERT CAMUS I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older. FAITH EVANS I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, e... KUMAIL NANJIANI People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it'... KRIS CARR The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they lik... JOE GREENE Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, an... AIDY BRYANT We've already learned a lot about the production process, and we can't wait for our audience... KIAN LAWLEY Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u... BEN STEIN One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll! MARCUS MAYO But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that s... GEORGE HARRISON My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them ... ELIZABETH PERKINS I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I hav... ISABEL ALLENDE Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up li... LARRY HOLMES You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the trut... NICK TURSE When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don... LOIS LOWRY Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ... ANNE SULLIVAN I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can s... CHARLES H. TOWNES We are chained, but you just don't realise it... DEYTH BANGER We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don... JACKSON BROWNE Don't wait. The time will never be just right. NAPOLEON HILL I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.... DAVID BROCK I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change i... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing... SAMANTHA CAMERON I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leader... LYNNE DOUGHTIE I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don'... JOE BIDEN But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration. CRAIG GROESCHEL The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I d... MARK RYLANCE We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop a... DEJAN STOJANOVIC I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It&... THOMAS J. STANLEY I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in s... ALFRE WOODARD Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become polit... JOHN F. KENNEDY Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you d... BRANDY NORWOOD
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ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t... ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ... ERIC LIU It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f... ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion. ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha... ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to... ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla... ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't... ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence. ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality. ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of... ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w... ERIC HOFFER Remembering is something God asks us to do over �... ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. 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