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Amity Shlaes has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when…
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In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and…
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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable…
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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new…
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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to…
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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of…
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one…
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In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession…
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A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and…
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human…
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…
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Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
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Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving…
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier…
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If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New…
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The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.…
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters,…
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of…
— Amity Shlaes
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Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
— Bill Dedman
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Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of…
— Claire Tomalin
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
— Claire Tomalin
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