Paul Krugman Quotes
Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
Quotes to Explore
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I never left doo wop.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
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Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
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I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.
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Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.
