Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
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Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.
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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
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When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track.
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.
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It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.
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I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.
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So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.
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I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
