Branko Milanovic Quotes
When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
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The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
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I just go out and play my best tennis.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low.
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Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.
