Angus Deaton Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.
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Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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On the windowpanes came rattling fistfuls of shot, and the snow whirled and sifted beneath ill-fitting doors, slid in the cracks of windowsills and searched in a frenzy for any refuge against the fury of the wind.
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If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.
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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.
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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
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When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
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Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.
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I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.
