"There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Kenneth Rogoff

#Country Quotes #Moving Quotes #Past Quotes

“Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'”
“For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.”
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
“Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did”
“Why are you taking your breasts away?â€ -Dane â€œCernunnosâ€ Hearne”
“An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.”
“When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'”

Source : "Merson cashes in on McGhee's peace offering" by Mark Tallentire, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2003.
“To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.”

Source : Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.236

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