Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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The love of God is not created- it is His nature.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.
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I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
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American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.
