Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.
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Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!
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As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
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The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
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Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?
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Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
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I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.
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No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
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What goes up must come down.
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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
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Everybody thought there was this bitter rivalry going on. In actuality, we didn't even know those guys back then.
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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
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I wanted to reach out to basically like my community and to show what’s going on around the world that I try to be conscious of. I caught myself being really really focused on the wrong ideas of other peoples comments.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
