"We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide."
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"The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves."
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"Trust is central to an economy that works."
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"Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes."
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"Our government has been in a surplus position up until this year. We should be able to recover to a surplus position shortly, as quickly as the economy recovers. So, we're able to do the kind of stimulus that you see in the United States without deteriorating our debt position in the long-term."
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"There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising."
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"A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82."
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"The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it."
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"With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour."
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"The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy."
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"Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it."
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"Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]"
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"This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction."
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"We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy."
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"The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself."
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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn"
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"Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]"
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"From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing."
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"[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right."
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"If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy."
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