Branko Milanovic Quotes
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
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Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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The market is assuming that the ECB won't be hiking rates in the next couple of months. The way is open for the euro to decline further.
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It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
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Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
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Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
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What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.
