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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Actually Become Better Decided Did Done Dozen Draw Efforts Going Half Improve List Make Much Old Really Skier Skiing Them Things Up Very Well Years

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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Acquiring Better Call Conceived Experience Gaining Good Good Life Involves Life Like Mastery Material May Means Oneself Prospering Rewards Terms Thus Wealth Whether Work

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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Better Economists Employment Fail Inclusion Jobs Least Like Minimum Minimum Wage Raise Raising See Seems Very Wage Workers

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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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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Actions Better Cases Change Climate Climate Change Consequences Economics Examples Full Global Global Warming Knowledge Less Level Our Predict Show Simple Simplest Us Warming Which

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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Better Hack Much Real Seemed Successful Than Writer

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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Am American Better England Everybody Feel French Good Here Knowing Known Much Names Read Than Very I Am

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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

~Edmund White

Topics: Better Determined Get Gets Most Rather Tend Than Worse Writers

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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

~Edna Ferber

Topics: Better Big Mean Necessarily Than Violets

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Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Anything Been Better Doing Long Perfect Poems Some Sometimes Talking Thinking Too Us Without

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