Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.
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The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
