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Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand… — Paul Krugman
America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies. — John McCain
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real,… — Ken Robinson
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of… — Joanne Woodward
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms… — Tim Wirth
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented… — Jeffrey Sachs
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What… — Unknown Author
No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace. — Charles Spurgeon
As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I… — Alanis Morissette
Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of… — Barack Obama
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore… — Neal A. Maxwell
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world… — Immanuel Wallerstein
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and… — Immanuel Wallerstein
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that… — Martin Luther

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