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May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At the time, it seemed that Haiti was on the cusp of a new era.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn't do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche - played us like a dimestore ukulele - but we were keen to be plucked.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
- Imperfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in bed by 10, but I may not actually go to sleep until 11. It doesn't take long. I just breathe in and out maybe 10 times, and that does it.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
- Nov 07, 2020