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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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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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 bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'
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God don't lie.... And these are his words.... He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.
