#direction

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic. ↗

— Mel Gibson

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We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period. ↗

— George Tenet

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There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

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Happiness is a direction, not a place. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#direction #place

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work. ↗

— Usher

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I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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