"If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world."

-- Stephen S. Roach

#Flow Quotes #World Quotes #Consumers Quotes

“To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.”
“By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.”
“Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.”
“Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?”
“Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.”
“Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.”
“In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.”
“Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.”

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