Thomas J. Sargent Quotes
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.
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I had skate wing in London. I had mine grilled with lemon and herbs, and it was the perfect seasoning for that fish.
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I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear
