"Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

#Rising Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes #Crash Quotes

“The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.”
“I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want this typical film feel of strange people in strange costumes, not really knowing what to do or how to move. If you put an 18th Century costume on Alan Rickman, it looks like he's been wearing it forever because he inhabits the stuff. He is a character that can really travel in time as an actor and transform into this 18th Century person with seemingly no effort.”
“One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.”
“Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.”

Source : "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.
“Parenthood is nothing but doubts.”
“After readingÂ The New Jim Crow,Â Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulagâ€”the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
“Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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