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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. ↗

— Albert Camus

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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. ↗

— Albert Camus

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana. ↗

— Trishelle Cannatella

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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool. ↗

— Max Cannon

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The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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