Barry Eichengreen Quotes
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson
Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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Ban Ki-moon
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G-Eazy
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Camille Paglia
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
Billy Sunday
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
Jason Calacanis
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun
People get so riled up, and they wanna fight shows, but all they have to do is turn it off, and you see what happens? The show goes off. That's all you have to do. You don't have to fight anybody. You don't have to hold up signs.
Kendra Wilkinson
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
