"Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known."
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"The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems."
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"A joke's a very serious thing."
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"If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem."
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"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball"
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"The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry."
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"I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem."
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"Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?"
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"People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions."
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"Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination."
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"Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more."
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"I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying."
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
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"If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it."
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"I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play."
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"Laughter is more serious than tears."
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"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"
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"In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious."
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"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
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"My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies."
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