"We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority"

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Source : The Right Livelihood Award Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2005.

Irene Fernandez

#Community Quotes #Majority Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.12, ICS Publications
“My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.”
“Second, I believe in human ingenuity â€“ that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.”
“As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.”

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.”
“So you actually need spectacles,â€ Leo finally said. â€œOf course I do,â€ Marks said crossly. â€œWhy would I wear spectacles if I didnâ€™t need them?â€ â€œI thought they might be part of your disguise.â€ â€œMy disguise?â€ â€œYes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someoneâ€™s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?”
“I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.”
“People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.”

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