Ben Bernanke Quotes
The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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There are a million different things that I want to do.
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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
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I never excluded any genre on my first record.
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It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
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The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
