"We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up to all of us to make smart policy choices that will help combat climate change. For example, putting a price on carbon is a necessary step and could drive resources and investments to a cleaner economy."

-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#Smart Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”
“They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
“I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times”
“Luis Suarez is a victim of his own make-up”
“I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.”

Source : Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.772, Delphi Classics
“Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”
“At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.”
“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

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