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" Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin. "

Joseph Stiglitz

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Financial

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" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "

" Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked. "

" I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. "

" After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. "

" Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. "

" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "

" Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand. "

" I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. "

" A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. "

Mignon McLaughlin

Her

Price

" Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. "

" I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. "

" From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life! "

" Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think. "

" But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. "

" By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms with incentives to innovate in ways that reduce energy usage and emissions - giving them a dynamic competitive advantage. "

" Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity. "

" I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. "

" I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' "

" The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it. "

" As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' "

" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "

" When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing. "

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

Kamal Haasan

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" I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. "

" With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age. "

" Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. "

" The surest sign of age is loneliness. "

" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "