Edmund Phelps Quotes
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
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I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
