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Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.


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BRIAN FRIEDMAN I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it ...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN To be honest, I never wanted to live in L.A.. I like this area, but L.A.'s a pit, sorry. I'm from Sa...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN They were getting progressively violent.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN Your fox trot is the smoothest I've seen yet.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN It's not a hippie experiment anymore, ... It actually works and it works really well.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the wo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to propert...
DAVID FRIEDMAN Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central insti...
DAVID FRIEDMAN The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it i...
DAVID FRIEDMAN Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by ...
DAVID FRIEDMAN Inflation is taxation without legislation
MILTON FRIEDMAN In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
MILTON FRIEDMAN A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
MICKEY FRIEDMAN The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
MICHAEL FRIEDMAN If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
LIZ FRIEDMAN