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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Apple Apples Base Bumper Cannot Colonial Crop Each Falling Fed Five Had History Increase Inflation Largest Monetary Next Over Present Price Prospects Quite Serious Seven Six Ten The History Of Think Times Value Without Years You I Think

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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

~Binyavanga Wainaina

Topics: Adopted Adopting Also Brothers Brothers And Sisters Christians Colonial Father First Good Grandfather Had Mixed Name Naming People Produce Schools Show Sisters Too Up Ways Were Western

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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Assist Caused Colonial Come Engaged Europe Forward Harm Hemisphere Nations Now Past Policies Positive Positive Way Slave Throughout Time Trade Way Western Western Europe Who

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There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Anymore Beyond Billions Billions Of Dollars Blink Bursts Colonial Control Digital Dollars Eye Few Financial Globe Instead Institutions Little Millions Nations Our Over Papers Pens Political

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: Colonial Complicated Examined Had History Nigeria Our Part Story Work

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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Aware Beginning Child Childhood Colonial Different End Era Experienced Forgot France Independence Made Me My Own Never Own Really Recognizing Something Sort Statement Student Things

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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: Admire Africa Before Born Came Colonial Did Long Many Parents People Period Pioneers Raised Real Rural Ways Were Who

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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

~Daniel Alarcon

Topics: Bright Buildings Colonial Colors High Intricate Jesus Love Maria Spanish Stories Streets Through Two Walk Wooden I Love

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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Amazing Brutally Colonial French Hanging Houses Moss Romantic Savannah Squares Town

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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Abundant America Another Been Both Colonial Deaths England Europe Every Form History Kind Literate Marriages Most New New England Other Point Preserve Record Records Societies Starting Starting Point Surviving Which

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