Amity Shlaes Quotes

• Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

  Amity Shlaes

  War, Hands, Forever

  "The Great Refrainer: The Legacy of Calvin Coolidge". www.cfr.org. May 15, 2013.

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• Los años veinte son la década que marcó la llegada de un regalo que aún significa mucho para nosotros: El sábado.

  Amity Shlaes

  Mean, Saturday, Stills

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• Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

  Amity Shlaes

  Trying, Economics, Economy

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

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  Government, Ku Klux Klan, Way

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

  Amity Shlaes

  President, Experts, Half

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

  Amity Shlaes

  Writing, President, Intimidating

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Monsters, Economics

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Citizens, Benefits

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Simple, Differences

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• In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

  Amity Shlaes

  School, Zuckerberg, Way

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• Para los inversores, la creación de empleo es un efecto de segundo orden. A los participantes en el mercado les importan en primer lugar los tipos de interés, los tipos de cambio, los precios de los bonos y el único gran factor que afecta a los tres: la solvencia a largo plazo de una empresa de bonos llamada gobierno de Estados Unidos.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

  Amity Shlaes

  Done, Ifs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

  Amity Shlaes

  Creer, Realidad, Pensar

  "Coolest Cal". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

  Amity Shlaes

  Pay, Vote, Should

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• People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

  Amity Shlaes

  Christian, Halloween, Valentine

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• Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

  Amity Shlaes

  Community, Hobbies, Clubs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Bud, Ears

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• Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Years, Building

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• There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Grandparent, Zombie

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• A Coolidge y a su secretario del Tesoro, Mellon, les encantaban las nuevas tecnologías. Al igual que JFK, C.C. adivinó que una nueva tecnología podría sacar a la nación de su estancamiento; la única diferencia era que la nueva tecnología de JFK eran los viajes espaciales, y la de Coolidge los viajes en avión.

  Amity Shlaes

  Airplane, Technology, Differences

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Con las exigencias de educación especial o de preparación de exámenes estandarizados que les gritan al oído, las escuelas públicas no siempre pueden oír a un padre cuando dice: "Quiero que mi hijo sepa escribir contratos en español", o "Quiero que mi hijo dé la mano con firmeza", o "Quiero que mi hijo estudie estadística y contabilidad, no cálculo".

  Amity Shlaes

  Niños, Escritura, Escuela

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• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  Amity Shlaes

  Country, Independent, Europe

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• Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Unions, May

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• The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

  Amity Shlaes

  Lucky, Subjects, Biographers

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

  Amity Shlaes

  Cutting, Government, Care

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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