"Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies."

-- Amy Lockwood

#Stars Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Sides Quotes

“My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.”
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”
“I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.”
“There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.”

Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press
“You can't chop down a symmetry”
“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.”

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