Alas, modern macroeconomists and policy makers often talk and act like it is.
And in my friend, Julia, I see the quality that we Americans admire most in our Australian friends: somebody who's down to earth, easy to talk to, and who says it like it is -- straight up.
The talk-radio Jacobins and the suburban sans culottes may not like that kind of treacherous talk, but it is the essence of the conservative political temperament.
With his latest round of talk shows appearances, it might seem like Charlie Sheen is digging his own grave.
There is talk it will be like that for the next two or three weeks and come the first week of February we should be on target for me to be able to walk unaided.
And as we all know from our own experience, the way to deal with a problem like that is to confront it and to talk about it and to try to repair the damage.
And now, I'd like to turn it over to Rich to talk about what the CFPB is doing to help parents, students and consumers know before they owe.
"Death was around and I kept thinking, 'Gosh, it would be great to talk about this and I feel like nobody is talking about this correctly around me, '" he says.
"There was a talk with Brian Higgins from Xenomania about songwriting, and the way they do it is like a proper formula, like a hit factory, " she said.
Listening to Ofer Lahav talk about dark energy I'm struck that this is what it must have been like to hear Isaac Newton describe gravity in the 1680s.
' And then there are those moments like on this record where it really is Eric Bishop, or when I talk about, you know, my daughter, "Heaven Will Never Be The Same, " and the last track on the record, which is "I Wish You Were Here, " which I dedicated to my grandmother.
We don't normally talk about Africa at events like this, what is so important about this initiative and what would it actually mean for people in some of these countries?
"At the moment predicting monthly house price figures is a little like predicting the weather and it would be foolhardy to talk about a recovery based on one set of data, " said Ashley Brown, director of mortgage broker Moneysprite.
Mugabe, like his ilk elsewhere in the world, recognises cowardice when he sees it and knows that talk is cheap.
"I don't like to talk about music that is that great, because whatever you say doesn't do it justice, " he said.
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"There has been a realisation among college-educated Americans that marriage is actually a pretty good idea, even if they don't like to talk about it in public, " argues Bradford Wilcox.
For years, theres bgeen a lot of talk about the potential of augmented reality, so it is exciting to watch that potential realized, whether at big companies like Google or DIY developers like Powell.
Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.
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