David Jones
David Jones
Twentieth-century British Modernist poet and painter who is best remembered for his long poem "The Anathemata." His other works include "In Parenthesis" and "Cara Wallia Derelicta."
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 November 1895
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I love abstract art because when it is good, it can put the viewer in touch with who they are beyond their culture, psychology, history or personality.
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I hate to see the kids miss school, but everybody else strikes, why can't the teachers?
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What Katrina has done is shift the economic focus from inflation to growth.
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You can imagine scenarios at this point where the Goldilocks economy turns into a nightmare.
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When you incarcerate a serial killer, your crime rate goes down - the public is safer. When you incarcerate a drug trafficker, someone else just steps in and takes the job. They don't take their crime to prison with them.
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When the Fed itself doesn't know what it is going to do after its next meeting, life becomes much harder for the forecasting community.
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This was a private consensual act. It was not, in our view, harmful either to the participants or to public health, and it's also discriminatory in that heterosexual conduct is not prosecuted.
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We did not play our style of basketball and we need to rebound and play defense. Things just spiraled out of control the third period and we weren't able to get back in the game. On top of that, Hollidaysburg is a good basketball team.
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To determine the impact of a one-day event really depends on where you are on the phase of that particular project.
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We've had these ups and downs in terms of psychology. Greenspan saw that the global crisis was going to slow U.S. growth.
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We've had these ups and downs in terms of psychology,
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Two good things have happened in Japan. We've overcome the uncertainty of who the leader's going to be; and secondly, they are listening to the markets, in terms of permanent tax cuts, in terms of banking reform.
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It is understandable that a new Fed chairman would want to prove his inflation-fighting mettle right away, but I think there is a danger that housing is more vulnerable than people realize.
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It's tough. We need to get our offense going because we are where we are and defense is where we are but when you give up 60-70 points that won't cut it.