"GDP tells you nothing about sustainability"

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Joseph Stiglitz

#Gdp Quotes #Sustainability Quotes

“High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.”
“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”
“My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.”
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions”
“Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.”

Source : "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.”

Source : "FUTURES: ‘Wuthering Heights’ Breakout Kaya Scodelario On Working For Andrea Arnold and Breaking Boundaries With ‘Skins’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 5, 2012.
“If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.”
“No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.”

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