"The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read."

-- Robert Fogel

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“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Source : Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books
“I just didn't like going to school.”

Source : Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.
“It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.”

Source : Interview with Danny Elfman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.
“Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.”
“Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!”
“When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.”
“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”
“I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.”

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