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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Lot Minimum Minimum Wage Over Raising Statistical Studies Wage

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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Almost Black Business Children Dinner Dinner Table Disadvantaged Discussions Goes Growing Growing Up Hear Little Men Nations Neighborhoods Representation Sector Table Two Up Who You Young

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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Bad Complain Enact Inequality Itself Offending Society Tax View Wealth Who Would

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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Better Community Country Economics Employer Employers Every Everybody Feels Himself His Labor Market Out Paying Pressured Raise Some Teaches Though Wages Well Will Workers

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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Any Anybody Break Costs Down Going Home Hundred Interest Maintenance Own Pay Rent Whether While Worry You Your

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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Anything Despised Get Involved Learn Long Narrow-Minded Old Old People Only People Provincial Reason Stayed Stupid World You Young Young People

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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Always Atheist Bee Busy Dark Death Dying Earth Except Fairly Feel Going Happier Heaven Keen Little Long Most Much Nights Occasionally People Protracted Should Soul Than Thought I Feel

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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Age Back Book Early Early Age Everybody Goes Had Holy Idea Literature Maybe Me Nothing Origins Record Sacred See Serious Should Totally Transparent Writing

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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Black Care Encouraged Father Friends He Her Home Ill Later Liked Married Match Me Mother Never Opened Really She Were Write Writer Years I Write 1950S

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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

~Edmund White

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