"Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown."

-- James Wolfensohn

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.”
“Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.”

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
“The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.”
“What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.”
“I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.”
“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”
“It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”

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