"As discomfiting as it is to both market……" — Virginia Postrel
"As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy."
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…
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More Activists Quotes
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
— John Avlon
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
— Bertrand Russell
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The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change…
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are…
— Jonathan Schell
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences…
— Bill Gates
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
— Studs Terkel
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From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of…
— Kevin Mattson
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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of…
— Robert D Bullard
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Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and…
— E.W. Jackson
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Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of…
— Conan O'Brien
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India…
— Rachel Weisz
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