Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes
Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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Napoleon Bonaparte
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert
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Karin Slaughter
I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
Naomie Harris
In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Nancy Gibbs
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Pope Benedict XVI
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
Chris Crutcher
Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell