James Meade Quotes
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
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Life's picking up speed.
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I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
