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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Economic

"Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Economic

"[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Economic

"Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Economic

"We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded."

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Al Gore Politician
Economic

"A majority of Trump's voters were in favor of staying in the Paris Agreement. And if you look at what's really happening in the economy, the economic argument actually is very strongly in favor of the Paris Agreement. There are now twice as many jobs in the solar industry as in the coal industry. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than other jobs in the U.S."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Economic

"It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet."

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William Julius Wilson Sociologist, Author
Economic

"Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Economic

"It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component."

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Robert M. Gates Politician
Economic

"My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that."

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Russell Baker Writer
Economic

"It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration."

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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Economic

"The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people."

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