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How small a part of time they share,
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!


Edmund Waller

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EDMUND PHELPS In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
EDMUND PHELPS I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
EDMUND PHELPS The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up...
EDMUND PHELPS What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
EDMUND PHELPS I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ...
EDMUND PHELPS I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
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