"One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed."

-- Edward Glaeser

#Wise Quotes #Country Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.”
“Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.”
“There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of”
“I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search ...”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.”

Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
“House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay marriage. Then Boehner said, 'Now can I go to Elton John's Oscar party?'”
“Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.”
“It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.”

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