Edmund Phelps Quotes
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it?
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Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.