But rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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