Edmund Phelps Quotes
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.