"There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half."

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Source : "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

Robert J. Gordon

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“When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.”
“Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.60, Penguin
“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”
“I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.”
“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”
“The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.”
“Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.”

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