David D. Aitken Quotes
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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Barack Obama is an economic patriot.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
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Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.
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In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
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Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.
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What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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I was used to having stones in my hands, but I realized now I needed both hands free to get to work… On me.
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I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
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The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.
