Adam Davidson quote: "Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies."

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur...
ADAM DAVIDSON

I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political reali...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different c...
ADAM DAVIDSON

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currenc...
ADAM DAVIDSON

A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumpt...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
ADAM DAVIDSON

If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a de...
ADAM DAVIDSON

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: findi...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economi...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
ADAM DAVIDSON

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want,...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of....
ADAM DAVIDSON

Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in y...
ADAM DAVIDSON

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
ADAM DAVIDSON

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial ver...
ADAM DAVIDSON

If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a we...
ADAM DAVIDSON

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, th...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson c...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
ADAM DAVIDSON

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our sch...
ADAM DAVIDSON

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a governm...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
ADAM DAVIDSON

I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassin...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to wh...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wi...
ADAM DAVIDSON

'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild vari...
ADAM DAVIDSON

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much th...
ADAM DAVIDSON

If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.
ADAM DAVIDSON

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art w...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less wo...
ADAM DAVIDSON

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between w...
ADAM DAVIDSON

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
ADAM DAVIDSON

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, share...
ADAM DAVIDSON

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administe...
ADAM DAVIDSON

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; ...
ADAM DAVIDSON

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of thin...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish ...
MIKE DAVIDSON

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web brow...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being b...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
ROBYN DAVIDSON

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotligh...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
ROBYN DAVIDSON

It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON

I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON

From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON

This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON

They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON

it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON

We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited fo...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

All this to say of course Gallo wants to get into your Little Mermaid panties. And if you don...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper ti...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless...
JEFF DAVIDSON

What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ...
JEFF DAVIDSON

The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly excee...
JEFF DAVIDSON

We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel, Which on t...
JOHN DAVIDSON

The war of words is done;
The red-lipped cannon speak;
The battle has begun.
The web your s...
JOHN DAVIDSON

The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an e...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain the...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ...
PETE DAVIDSON

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project...
MIKE DAVIDSON

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as '...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Isaac did it, but I got all the publicity. Isaac figured if the stupid reporters had got it right, h...
BEN DAVIDSON

I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn...
BEN DAVIDSON

What went through my mind was, maybe I can break Lenny Dawson's ribs and he won't be able to play ne...
BEN DAVIDSON

He'd come up to the ball for the first play and say, 'Hi, Ben.' I'd say, 'Hi, Jim.' Then we bent dow...
BEN DAVIDSON

Those were my favorite games. I always likened them to a heavyweight fight. You knew you were going ...
BEN DAVIDSON

To say you coached a state championship team in probably one of the premier athletic events in the c...
ANDY DAVIDSON

When your colleagues put that confidence in you and congratulate you on a job well done ? I'm pretty...
ANDY DAVIDSON

We wrestled above our seeds. It was totally a team win. If someone doesn't do his job, it doesn't ha...
ANDY DAVIDSON

That's a good year. Three of those (losses) came down to the last match. We're pleased with the 13-4...
ANDY DAVIDSON

Those three have been steady. All started wrestling in elementary (school). Every Saturday they were...
ANDY DAVIDSON

This was a team goal at the beginning of the year. This tournament is not the main focus of the seas...
ANDY DAVIDSON

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.
MIKE DAVIDSON

The job of a judge on any court is to serve the public and to do that in an impartial and fair manne...
BILL DAVIDSON

The kids have overcome a huge batch of adversity the last two weeks. I thought they played very hard...
BILL DAVIDSON

We all had immediate love for the company, growing up in the family. The conversations during Christ...
BILL DAVIDSON

I hope we have a big crowd, ... It's the home opener. There's been some talk going on about us playi...
BILL DAVIDSON

This is his first true look at tailback. We ran him some at split back earlier in the season. Unfort...
BILL DAVIDSON

This is his first true look at tailback, ... We ran him some at split back earlier in the season. Un...
BILL DAVIDSON

We had a freshman quarterback, a sophomore tailback and three junior receivers. We became real young...
BILL DAVIDSON

We had a freshman quarterback, a sophomore tailback and three junior receivers, ... We became real y...
BILL DAVIDSON

We just got our butts kicked,
BILL DAVIDSON

I'm very proud of Givens. He stepped up and played the big game tonight. He was our emotional leader...
BILL DAVIDSON

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis...
DOUG DAVIDSON

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are begi...
MIKE DAVIDSON

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I gu...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back t...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any br...
MIKE DAVIDSON

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
ROBYN DAVIDSON

I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi...
PETE DAVIDSON

I'll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
ANDREW DAVIDSON

The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R&#...
DOUG DAVIDSON

This excellent result further reinforces the advice given to unit holders that they should take no a...
BRUCE DAVIDSON

There had been no agreement with Australia, we were not in a position to announce anything and when ...
BRUCE DAVIDSON

That's what it looks like. We have to prove it now; that's going to be the tough part.
BRUCE DAVIDSON

It's like going through a war.
BRUCE DAVIDSON

Jail must be imposed to reflect the ongoing breach of trust, the considerable effect on the victims ...
BRUCE DAVIDSON

[The photograph was described by a police witness as] a joke of a kind someone outside police cultur...
BRUCE DAVIDSON

This increase in performance reflects the benefit of two years of restructuring and repositioning, a...
BRUCE DAVIDSON

These devices, in the vocational setting, level the playing fields so a blind or a low-vision person...
BOB DAVIDSON

It's very expensive. It's a niche market, and I think that is basically the reason the prices are as...
BOB DAVIDSON

Receiving the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award three times in the past five years demonstr...
BOB DAVIDSON

The wrong umpire made the initial call.
BOB DAVIDSON

The wrong umpire made the initial call. It was my call and I had him leaving early.
BOB DAVIDSON

Brian Knight hustled over to third base where he's supposed to be but he doesn't have the tag-up cal...
BOB DAVIDSON

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listen...
BOB DAVIDSON

We'll probably be here for three or four days, maybe longer because the other building actually got ...
BOB DAVIDSON

It's the plate umpires call, which is me. It's my call and I had him leaving early and called him ou...
BOB DAVIDSON

The wrong umpire made the initial call. That's the plate umpire's call. I had it lined up. It's my c...
BOB DAVIDSON

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets t...
MIKE DAVIDSON

Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't ta...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand o...
JEFF DAVIDSON

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON

Gold, copper and zinc have been moving strongly, but currencies have been more difficult for people....
CHARLES DAVIDSON

I've just begun to investigate this. Obviously, it's something we take very seriously. This is extre...
GARY DAVIDSON

I am more than my scars.
ANDREW DAVIDSON

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.
DOUG DAVIDSON

We were in the process of executing a federal search warrant when this happened. It's all part of an...
GARY DAVIDSON

Obviously, it's needed to do things like steer and propel and make (the kayak) go, but it's real cri...
MICHAEL DAVIDSON

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal c...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

It was the classic speculative mania,
RICHARD DAVIDSON

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it...
DOUG DAVIDSON

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
ROBYN DAVIDSON

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.
DOUG DAVIDSON

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly gu...
DOUG DAVIDSON

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.
MIKE DAVIDSON

I don't think I would do anything differently about the activity of demons.
DOYLE DAVIDSON

There would be just shells of houses left, and we're lopping down big old trees around (them). It wa...
CROSBY DAVIDSON

The two things I can't stand is shopping for clothes and going to nightclubs. Obnoxious, crazed dude...
DANIEL DAVIDSON

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are a...
MIKE DAVIDSON

there wasn't a damned thing I could say without coming off like a mega-bitch. And it wasn't even nin...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

George paid for college by working for Cutco. Cutco is a company that makes and sells knives. Their ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.
ALAN DAVIDSON

Overwhelmingly, businesses are failing to protect themselves by not securing their domain names as t...
ALAN DAVIDSON

The smart domain-name holders protect themselves in two ways: first, they complete a trademark searc...
ALAN DAVIDSON

She walked the midway, or she'd sit on a lawn chair outside the popcorn stand.
DAVID DAVIDSON

No, there are a wide range of issues that affect our users, ... related to a number of our services.
ALAN DAVIDSON

Building the infrastructure with no revenue coming in has been difficult for companies. More success...
JOHN DAVIDSON

Bullet, he's as happy as a singing bird, and Clever is too.
COLLEEN DAVIDSON

He’s very passionate, ... When people he backs don’t succeed, that’s an emotional thing for hi...
JIM DAVIDSON

We won't look another team all season long. Not for the rest of the season.
DANIEL DAVIDSON

I bought this place, obviously, as an investment. One always looks to maximize the allure. I saw it ...
DANIEL DAVIDSON

I have never charged for a party. The party in March was the only big party I have ever had, and I s...
DANIEL DAVIDSON

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of be...
MIKE DAVIDSON

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe...
MIKE DAVIDSON

Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface ...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

We just have to ... work harder so we can dig ourselves out of this hole.
ANDREW DAVIDSON

It's just super-frustrating when we can't score. We're doing everything right, but we just can't fin...
ANDREW DAVIDSON

Lean red meat contains stearic acid and monounsaturated fats, which do not raise cholesterol. So the...
MICHAEL DAVIDSON

And it was only then that I realized what I had let myself in for, and only then I realized how bloo...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

The most striking thing is that the wind doesn't bite any more. It used to take pieces of skin off y...
WAYNE DAVIDSON

The mouth of a passionate lover... or a woman who would bite when she was angry.
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

It is scary, it is terrifying.
DARREN DAVIDSON

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

I like the idea of federal employees licensed to carry weapons who are also heavily medicated; it ju...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,
JOHN DAVIDSON

The market typically leads earnings rebound by about six months. Maybe market participants are expec...
JOHN DAVIDSON

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.
MIKE DAVIDSON

We've had the same Fed chairman for so many years that we have a standard. He represents an unknown,...
JOHN DAVIDSON

We went down there and got it. The first stop we made was Taco Bell.
GERRY DAVIDSON

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. A...
ANDREW DAVIDSON

God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man sa...
ANDREW DAVIDSON

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON

Everything got piled on the floor.
SILAS DAVIDSON

We have invested in extensive blending, bagging and storage facilities, which allow us to meet the d...
CHARLES DAVIDSON

P.G. is fermented and held exclusively in stainless steel to maximize the brightness and freshness. ...
JOHN DAVIDSON

Whilst I welcome the fact that the minister has taken this step, I am exasperated by the executive's...
DAVID DAVIDSON

We're not going to be a rubber stamp for what someone in Austin says we should be.
MIKE DAVIDSON

My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything i...
JO DAVIDSON

Very frustrating. We were dominating the whole game, but we just couldn't finish.
ANDREW DAVIDSON

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

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