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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6831bb | misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 9ae7f1f | aunque la economia de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economia de goteo hacia arriba si puede funcionar: todo el mundo --incluso los de arriba-- podria beneficiarse dando mas a los de abajo y a los de en medio. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| b93bf5a | But Dutch and other European milk producers would like to increase sales by having their milk, transported over long distances, appear to be as fresh as the local product. In 2014 the Troika forced Greece to drop the label "fresh" on its truly fresh milk and extend allowable shelf life." | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 98d9c3c | truth-telling, truth-discovering, and truth-verification institutions evolved, and we owe to them much of the success of our economy and our democracy.21 Central among them is an active media. Like all institutions, it is fallible; but its investigations are part of our society's overall system of checks and balances, providing an important public good. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 1cab64f | We know through advances in behavioral economics and marketing that one can manipulate perceptions and beliefs. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| df3068c | Cigarette companies succeeded in using these methods to cast doubt on scientific findings that smoking was bad for health; and firms of all kinds succeed in persuading individuals to buy products that they might not otherwise have bought, | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| e29c61c | The eurozone was flawed at birth. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 1087694 | I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| ed82889 | quantity, at | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 49d1585 | Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with a magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment. And | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0d859e8 | Dude," he said, "Calm down." This was something I hated being told, especially by a boy. My voice might rise half an octave, I thought of telling him, but there's no need to take cover - I will not leap from my chair to embrace you, I will not even shriek with delight." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 65dfb3b | We both were smiling, and I loved him, I loved him completely, and I knew that he loved me back. I could feel it. That moment- inside it, I could anticipate the thing I most wanted and I could be beyond it, it had happened already, and I was ensconced in the rich reassurance of knowing it was certain and definite. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0ff7cb0 | Nin--" Jasper said, and his pained tone was a reminder that, however he had transgressed, he hadn't done so entirely callously. His affection for her was not fake; it just was partial. Or perhaps it was fake, he was faking emotion now, and he had a personality disorder; but between these possibilities, she preferred to see him as inadequate rather than clinically diagnosable. "I'm going to do better," he said. "Starting now, I'm getting my .. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 1d18f4c | Easterners didn't really care? Niceness for its own sake wasn't a virtue to them. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 71e3e37 | And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8aaffe2 | And the things you said, the walk from chapel to the schoolhouse, your backpack, tests, these were a bridge running above the rushing water of what you actually felt. The goal was: learn to ignore what's down below. Fine if you met someone else who was the same as you, but you had to realize that nothing another person could do would make you feel better about any of it. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 1108731 | There were many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments really, which is not the same as terrible lifetime. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 2754ebb | But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 0ff4d05 | It was so nice to rest in the moment without pushing it further, to feel its possibilities rather than its limitation. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| d3483e6 | I take it you don't believe in love at first sight.' 'Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?' 'I don't, no,' Darcy said. 'But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced first hand. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| be17b64 | Good manners means accommodating the person you were with. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 9d228ce | It is not a camera, or a reporter, that makes something, real and genuine; more often, a camera or a reporter does the opposite. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| cd86ccf | They only half-jokingly speculated about whether they were the last two single people from their high school class, | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 52ad412 | My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| f1ce0db | There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, so long as he devotes himself to you in return. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b537ade | It's good on the other side, but it's good on your side too. Enjoy it there. The loneliness is harder, and the loneliness is the biggest part, but some things are easier. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 62e3bfe | I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention to subjects they profess to find repugnant | curtis sittenfeld | ||
| 25e5de2 | Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8e65edd | Long ago I had become my own confidant. | curtis sittenfeld | ||
| 6f2a17f | Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. "As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 96073a5 | though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 47a87ef | When you are the object of a person's affection, do you naturally credit him with a sympathetic heart and an understanding of the world? Perhaps your impression is right only insofar as it applies to you; in his presence, he is indeed possessed of these qualities for the very reason that you are the object of his affection. He is not observant so much as observant of you, not kind so much as kind toward you. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 82b1746 | At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| ee23386 | Though Chip's tears during the exchange of vows weren't a surprise, their duration and magnitude was a spectacle unlike any Liz had ever witnessed. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 1000c30 | When they left the bar, before parting ways in Port Authority, they stood on the corner of Forty-second Street and Seventh Avenue and continued talking; there were between them always an infinite number of subjects to be addressed and dissected, mulled over and mocked and revised. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 660a9f6 | Even our challenges here have made our lives richer and deepened our ability to feel. Our family has been very lucky to live somewhere beautiful. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b757cc5 | About a year before, Kitty and Lydia had embraced CrossFit, the intense strength and conditioning regimen that involved weight lifting, kettle bells, battle ropes, obscure acronyms, the eschewal of most foods other than meat, and a derisive attitude toward the weak and unenlightened masses who still believed that jogging was a sufficient workout and a bagel was an acceptable breakfast. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 761db34 | There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. i don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return | love | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| b45fed7 | But still, Liz was unwilling to grant them access to her new and wondrous romance; she loved Darcy too much to prove her love to anyone except him. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 77f2c7c | She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating graham crackers and reading 'Glamour'. She didn't wait for me to open the door but turned the knob herself and stepped inside. Seeing her in the threshold was both surprising and perfectly natural - since I'd left her classroom, my head had been pretty much continuously buzzing with pieces of my conversation, and her pr.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 9ec703d | She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating graham crackers and reading 'Glamour'. She didn't wait for me to open the door but turned the knob herself and stepped inside. Seeing her in the threshold was both surprising and perfectly natural - since I'd left her classroom, my head had been pretty much continuously buzzing with pieces of my conversation, and her pr.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 65fc0b7 | I won't claim I've never in my life done anything I'm ashamed of, but I haven't done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I've made, that's fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong. | shame what-others-think | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| e4098d5 | You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| a082188 | you certainly should | Curtis Sittenfeld |