Edmund Phelps Quotes
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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In particular, for my character, Celeste in Big Little Lies, there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
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When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.
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Are we solving the world's problems by allowing women to make the first move on a dating app? No. But I do believe we are helping to change some very archaic norms.
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The Bible’s claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer’s, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically true reality—it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy.
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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
