Edmund Phelps Quotes

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

Edmund Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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EconomicsWorldRichFinancialMoral

If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

Melanie Rawn

FindGoInspirationRealRetire

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Kennedy

WorkChangeHistoryGreatnessSmall

Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

Anjelah Johnson

SomeoneDoingPlayTryStrengths

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

Sonny Rollins

MotherAdaptIslandBecomeMelody

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Tom Robbins

EndIdeologyUltimateTotalitarianism

My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.

Michelle Huneven

MotherSometimesSayCaliforniaLike

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Jasmine Guy

LoveMarriageRespectTimeMoment

I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

Jon Favreau

LoveStoryRememberYouPerfect

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

Derek Walcott

CollegeLiteratureHeritageCitizen

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

ChildrenFunWritingWorldHardTwo

I was the last person in the world that wanted to leave ECW.

Shane Douglas

WorldPersonLeaveLastWanted

This is the age of disruption.

Sebastian Thrun

AgeDisruption

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