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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ↗

— Albert Camus

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I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#handful #his #i #knew #know

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

#any #assert #because #believe #case

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#authentic #creation #culture #even #freedom

But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #current #dollar #economy #expansion

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#began #beginning #decline #dollar #fell

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#coming #competitive #decline #delays #demand

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#consumer #home #homeowners #improvements #like

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. ↗

— Albert Camus

#brings #clouds #inevitably #myth #production