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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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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It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.
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Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
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This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
