"Real wealth of a nation is the people."

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Source : "Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action".

Mahbub ul Haq

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.”
“This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'”
“When I was five. That's when I started to love film.”
“Never find fault with the absent.”
“I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.”
“Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.”

Source : Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK
“Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.”
“I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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