- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better off if some industries are allowed to wither, their workers lose their jobs, and investors lose their capital - all in the name of the greater glory of globalization - surely ranks near the top.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
- Inclusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020