Thomas Piketty Quotes

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

Thomas Piketty

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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Tom Glazer

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For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

Missy Franklin

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I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

Dianna Agron

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It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.

Dawn Steel

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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

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I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.

Svetlana Alexievich

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The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.

Peter Abrahams

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The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state.

Norman Davies

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I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.

Nick Woodman

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None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Ric Flair

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Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

Mark Hyman

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