Edmund Phelps Quotes
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I hate competition.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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We have to straighten out our country; we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm.
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I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.
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I live in a beautiful country; a beautiful city and I have a beautiful family.
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He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man 'of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.'
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.