Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I was very rebellious.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.
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Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.
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Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.
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Devaluations are never easy.
