Niall Ferguson Quotes

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Niall Ferguson

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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

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Gap has always been about color, and we let a lot of competitors take that space from us.

Robert J. Fisher

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When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

Shimon Peres

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Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

Tommy Shaw

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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

Ruth Rendell

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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Deborah Bull

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It's much harder to lose weight as you get older.

Bradley Walsh

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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Ferry

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Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.

Arthur Laffer

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I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.

Pete Ploszek

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Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

Ryne Sandberg

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