"Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own."

-- Omar Bongo

#World Quotes #Development Quotes #Trade Quotes

“A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.”
“And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.”

Source : Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”
“We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.”

Source : "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register." by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.
“If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.”
“Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.”

Source : "Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah" by Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. January 27, 2006.
“I have no nationality, no country.”
“The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.”
“My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.”

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