"In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport."

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Paul Krugman

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“If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.”
“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.”
“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
“I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”
“Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.”
“People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!”

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