Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.
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I think I'm playing the wrong position because there's so many great players from Canada. They won Olympic gold last time. There's so many good players that are going to get a really good look. You never know. I'm just going to continue to do my best this year. I mean, if they give me a shot, they give me a shot. If not, maybe next time. I'm going to continue to push myself and be the best I can.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
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Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy.
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
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And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.
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Faith is under the left nipple.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
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Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.
