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“Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.”
Source : "Wonkbook: Ben Bernanke’s surprisingly excellent, radical speech" by Ezra Klein, Evan Soltas, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013. 
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“One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.”
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“You're gonna know my name by the end of the night”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.”
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“I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence.”
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“Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.”
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“We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation. In addition, it certainly violates the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens, and well as the rights and freedoms of citizens in those countries which signed and ratified it.”
Source : "Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser" by Yuri Zarakhovich, time.com, December 31, 2005.
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“The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.”
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“I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.”
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“What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!”
Source : Grant Allen (1894). “Post-prandial Philosophy”
