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"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
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"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight."
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"I'm too old to do things by half."
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."
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"When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty."
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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
Office
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
Policy
"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."
Change
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
Time
"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."
Art
"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
Government
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
Reading
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
Time
"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
Business
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
Impression
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