"Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation."

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Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.12, Oxford University Press

Paul Collier

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“The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.”
“If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.”
“Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”
“The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.”
“Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?”
“Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.”
“Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.”
“The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seenâ€¦you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.”

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