Edmund Phelps Quotes
Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.Edmund Phelps
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso -
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S. J. Rozan -
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln -
I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
Vernon Wells -
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban -
Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
Rand Paul
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
Vincent Cassel -
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
Ian McKeever -
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Cossman -
History's a resource.
Laura Linney -
Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
Larry Wilcox
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
Pankaj Mishra -
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin -
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
Ted Stevens -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid
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The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.
Amy Chozick -
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
Madeleine Peyroux -
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
Chris Messina -
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha -
Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
Sam Graves -
Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
Edmund Phelps