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Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.
Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time.
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.
The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.
What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.
The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.
Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.
We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving.
The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.
I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.
People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.
Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.
A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.
We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.
An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.