"In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India."

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Source : "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview With Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Income Quotes

“Something that you feel will find its own form.”
“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”
“You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.”
“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”
“I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?”
“Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.”
“His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.19, Harper Collins
“Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.”

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