Famously
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514 examples of Famously in a sentence
Putin once
famously
observed that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Joseph Stalin
famously
quipped when told to be mindful of the Vatican.
But, as John Maynard Keynes
famously
put it, in the long run we are all dead.
On a visit to the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong
famously
refused to use the flush toilet adjoining his room, and instead used a chamber pot he had brought from China.
John Maynard Keynes
famously
said, “In the long run, we are all dead.”
Famously, few people know who even holds Switzerland’s annually rotating presidency.
Karl Marx
famously
wrote that history repeats itself as farce.
The example they
famously
used was that of a Mozart string quartet, which requires the same number of musicians and instruments in modern times as it did in the nineteenth century.
Virginia Woolf
famously
wrote that a woman who wanted to write fiction “must have money and a room of her own.”
Nobel Prize winners Robert Solow and Paul Krugman
famously
once questioned whether the proliferation of computers and technology would lead to bottom-line growth.
And this soon shaded into anti-Semitism – what the German Social Democrat August Bebel
famously
called “the socialism of fools.”
But, as Edmund Burke
famously
pointed out, “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
But, at such moments, Obama might do well to recall Vajpayee’s words during Clinton’s visit, when he quoted Walt Whitman’s poem “Passage to India”:“Sail forth – steer for the deep waters only,Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go.”Ukraine's Road to Europe"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," Rudyard Kipling
famously
said.
Aristotle
famously
contrasted two types of knowledge: techne (technical know-how) and phronesis (practical wisdom).
Future historians may well be tempted to say of the South China Sea question what Lord Palmerston
famously
did of Schleswig-Holstein in the nineteenth century: “Only three people have ever understood it.
In his masterpiece A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (written with Anna Schwartz), he
famously
attributed recessions, including the Great Depression of the 1930’s, to a decline in the money supply.
He
famously
induced people from a variety of social classes and occupations to administer what they thought were increasingly harsh electrical shocks to a helpless victim (played by an actor) sitting in an adjoining room, and his findings have since been replicated around the world.
Ignorance TodayNEW YORK – Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also
famously
gave us a still-current definition of its opposite: knowledge.
Socrates, Plato’s teacher,
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goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.
The Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman
famously
argues that the only social responsibility of business is to maximize profits.
The American-Canadian author and urban activist Jane Jacobs
famously
observed that cities are the true engines of national prosperity.
Referring to capital controls, John Maynard Keynes
famously
said: “what used to be heresy [restrictions on capital flows] is now endorsed as orthodoxy.”
In doing so, it followed the example of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, who
famously
warned that Europe would “turn black” if it did not pay him to hold back migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
Dean Acheson, the US secretary of state who was an architect of NATO and the Marshall Plan,
famously
noted that Britain in the twentieth century lost an empire and never found a new international role.
When the Fed’s job was, as former Chair William McChesney Martin
famously
put it, “to take away the punch bowl” as soon as wages started to rise faster than productivity, intellectual capture was not a concern: central bankers were not spending much time with workers and union leaders.
The Immorality of Boris Johnson and Donald TrumpLONDON – In a 2013 press conference, then-recently inaugurated Pope Francis
famously
said that, when it comes to sexual orientation, including past homosexual acts, “who am I to judge?”
Mao
famously
said: “No need to apologize.
The problem is not that negative things are said behind closed doors – as one leader
famously
responded to an apologizing Hillary Clinton, “You should hear what we say about you” – but that they become public knowledge.
Warren Buffet
famously
said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
“If something cannot go on forever,” as the economist Herbert Stein
famously
put it, “it will stop.”
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