"When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging."

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Source : William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

William Easterly

#Priorities Quotes #Digging Quotes #Holes Quotes

“I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.”
“My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.”
“I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 29, 2011.
“There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.”
“Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.”
“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ...”

Source : "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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