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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Country More Most People Perhaps Question Than Who

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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Affirmation After Carter Country Days Declaration Diary Equality Freed He His Independence Meant Must Out Owner Plantation Read Ringing Send Slaves Steal Support Them Two Virginia Whether Wondered You

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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Banks Basic Big Changes Corporate Country Deceptive Economy Governance Honesty Institute Management Most Must Practice Practices Responsibility Restore Sake Self-Respect Shot Through Were

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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Adept Best Coming Country Dynamism Fertile Having How Ideas Identifying Innovative Level Market Matter Methods New New Products Onto Out Prepared Products Profitability Prospects Trying Up

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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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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Administration American American Dream Back Bringing Career Core Country Doing Dream Eventually Getting Good Good Life Having Hoping Idea Involved Job Leaders Life Older Other Succeed Thought Well Will

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I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Action Career Country Dreaming Exciting Feel Hope Like Other Out Own People Rewarding See Some Striking Wherever Would

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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

~Ednita Nazario

Topics: Alternative Brazilian Country Influences International Latin Many Music Pop Rock Sounds Styles

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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

~Edoardo Ponti

Topics: Anyone Become Country Cultural French Heritage Important Love Marry Matter More Nationality Order Paper Parents Piece Really Sophia Tells Than Them Think Would You I Think

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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Absolutely Country Debts Enough Enough Money Got Impossible Money Others Settle Teachers

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