"We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist"

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Source : "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'". www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

Jim Yong Kim

#Business Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Growth Quotes

“When I was 7, I told my dad I want to have a house like Micheal Jackson's one. And then he said to me that dreams are only dreams, that's a privilegy of the rich people. I have grown up now and my dream came true, but I feel sad that my father can't see that and what have I reached in my life. But I know he's watching me from the sky”
“Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.”
“We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.”

Source : Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos
“The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.”

Source : Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.3, University of Virginia Press
“I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's never one of their family members that is killed, because then they will probably change their mind on capital punishment.”

Source : Source: www.teenink.com
“Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.141, Penguin
“But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.”
“We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”

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