"Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth."

-- Nicholas Stern

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #World Quotes

“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.”

Source : Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, "Against the Mathematicians", vii. 3,
“I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.”
“I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.”
“For those saying they live in fear, again, I think they should be part of the conversation. They should reach out and try to not be so presumptively accusatory, frankly, or presumptively negative towards the president-elect, and instead try to build that trusting relationship and try to, frankly, explain their case to him and to his advisers.”
“when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 08, 2001.
“I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.”
“True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.93, Multnomah
“To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.”

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