"If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous."

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Source : "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

Christina Romer

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“It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.”
“The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.”

Source : Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570
“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying â€” and you have to keep trying â€” eventually you will come across the next item on your list.”

Source : "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.”
“The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.”
“To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.”
“You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.”
“I love the smell of estrogen in the morning”

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