"Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country."

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Source : "Meeting the Challenges of Electronic Business" in Muscat, Oman, October 09, 2000.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#Country Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Development Quotes

“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.”
“I've never really been too scared to do anything.”
“One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.”

Source : Nicholas Rescher (1990). “Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology”, p.101, Stanford University Press
“Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.”
“There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.”
“All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You wonâ€™t remember it, and youâ€™ll learn nothing from it, and youâ€™ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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