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The essential Greenspan legacy . . . is the idea that the Fed will allow nothing to go really wrong.


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AMY GRANT My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
JOHN GRANT I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.
GRANT BOWLER Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but t...
GRANT ACHATZ Sometimes I think He looks down and says, "Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I bett...
MICHAEL GRANT So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?"
"What?" Again that ...
MICHAEL GRANT No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good...
MICHAEL GRANT You're staring," Lana said.
"Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear hav...
MICHAEL GRANT I like your boyfriend," Dahra said. "Not many guys volunteer to carry ten gallons of diarrhea and vo...
MICHAEL GRANT No one vinces me, baby
MICHAEL GRANT Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud.
"Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little gir...
MICHAEL GRANT If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.
MICHAEL GRANT It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'"
"That's great," Lana said.
"Invinc...
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