Edmund Phelps Quotes

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

Edmund Phelps

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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

John Ashcroft

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If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.

Andrew Shaffer

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Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

John McWhorter

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Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

Robert Reich

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I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

Angela Merkel

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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Steve Jobs

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I really want to be part of things from the ground up wherever possible. Not to say that I'm not open to being a gun for hire - I am, absolutely - but I really enjoy developing.

Michelle MacLaren

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I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

Lizzy Caplan

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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

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Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

Arundhati Roy

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I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Allan Sherman

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We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.

Sun Yat-sen

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