"The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory"

-- Sunita Narain

#Future Quotes #Choices Quotes #Growth Quotes

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2005). “Skybreaker”, HarperCollins
“When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”
“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
“Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.”
“Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.”

Source : 'A Wish' (1867)
“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.218, OUP Oxford

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