"Only empirical work - analysis based on observation and experience as opposed to theory - can answer the question of how labor force behavior is affected by changes in the tax system. Even intense armchair speculation on this matter must be regarded with considerable skepticism."

"The First Welfare Theorem holds only if all consumers and firms are price takers. If some individuals or firms are price makers (they have the power to affect prices), then the allocation of resources will generally be inefficient."

"Peoples views on how the government should conduct its financial operations are heavily influenced by their political philosophies."

"It must be emphasized that free ridership is not a fact; it is an implication of the hypothesis that people maximize a utility function that depends only on their own consumption of goods."

"In this country, the number of individuals on the government payroll certainly underestimates the importance of government."

"Dioxin is the outcome of the operations of markets. Does this mean that having dioxin in the environment is efficient?"

"The American ash from which bats are made has an unusually high strength-to-weight ratio. Ash was celebrated in medieval times as the only proper wood from which to construct the lances of knights errant; an ash lance was light enough to carry and wield and strong enough to impale the opposition."

"Balls curve as a consequence of asymmetries in the resistance of the air through which they pass."

"Every 3 feet of lead is worth about one-tenth of a second, and a rolling start is worth a good half second. Indeed, the difference between the runner having his weight mainly on his front foot and mainly on his back foot (but don't let the pitcher catch you leaning!) must be worth more than one-tenth of a second."

"Control pitchers hit corners with an uncertainty of about 3". One must be a fairly good shot to shoot a pistol with that accuracy."

"We not that those players with weaker arms might be better off throwing at a lower angle to get the ball to the plate on the bounce. If the surface is Astroturf, the 90-mph player can gain as much as 0.2 seconds, or 6 feet, on the runner by throwing on the bounce. But if his team is playing on grass and his groundskeeper has kept the grass long and well watered to help his team (which relies on singles, speed, and baserunning), the ball may lose so much speed at the bounce that nothing will be gained."

"To hit a baseball with dispatch, one needs both to step into the ball and to rotate."

"A small, but interesting, portion of baseball can be understood on the basis of physical principles. The flight of balls, the liveliness of balls, the structure of bats, and the character of the collisions of balls and bats are a natural province of physics and physicists."

"Much of the subtlety of baseball is derived from the fact that so much of the game is played in the region between definitely smooth flow and definitely turbulent flow, at ball velocities greater than 50 mph and smaller than 120 mph."

"The maximum Magnus force on a ball spinning at a rate of 1800 rpm is seen to be about one-third of the weight of the ball, so we cannot expect a ball spinning at that rate to curve more than one third of the distance it will fall under gravity."

"Note that the ball falls at a rather large angle at the end of its flight; the trajectories are not symmetric."

"Almost all of fluid dynamics follows from a differential equation called the Navier-Stokes equation. But this general equation has not, in practice, led to solutions of real problems of any complexity. In this sense, the curve of a baseball is not understood; the Navier-Stokes equation applied to a base ball has not been solved."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

"There are no ordinary moments."

"You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously."

"You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible."

"Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow."

"The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece."

"At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation."

"Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over."

"The faith is not the problem, the problem is the faithful."

"Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable."

"The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war."

"If one's enemies know where you are, no matter how well protected you are, you can be gotten."

"The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true."

"Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety."

"His love of creating, the joy he took in it whether it was drama or comedy or his music, was inspiring to grow up around. The spirit he created on the set of The Andy Griffith Show was joyful and professional all at once. It was an amazing environment. And I think it was a reflection of the way he felt about having the opportunity to create something that people could enjoy. It was always with respect and passion for the opportunity and really what it could offer people in a very unpretentious and earthy way. He felt he was always working in service of an audience he really respected and cared about. He was a great influence on me. His passing is sad. But he lived a great rich life."

"Andy Griffith His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life I'm forever grateful RIP Andy."

"Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press."

"Is that the minds last, soundless, dying cry? Who will remember? There is no rustling of old crowds as my long, wrenching, joyous voyage ended, only the question, "Who will remember?""

"The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done."

"Being and writing, the road asked nothing more."

"Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves."

"It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one."

"I wonder if anyone always knows-you, me, Jackie Robinson, even Robert Frost-that we will cross to Safety. Or is it rather that when we are There, we think we always knew?"

"There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons."

"The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat."

"When the wind blew from the south and the French doors had been opened, the sound of cheering carried from Ebbets Field into the apartment. It was astonishing, to hear cheers from a major league crowd while sitting at home."

"At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better."

"The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do."

"I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes."

"Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory."