"Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality."

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Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

Alejandro Castro Espin

#Reality Quotes #Gdp Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.”
“There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.”

Source : "Hoff the hook" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2006.
“What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'”
“Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent use of land would be unable to raise money for the purchase price. Collecting rent annually provides access to land for persons with limited access to credit.”
“I heard words and words full of holes aching.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.283, Univ of California Press
“Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.”
“A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.”
“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”

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