"At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years."

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Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

Paul Ormerod

#Years Quotes #Growth Quotes #Size Quotes

“In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”
“I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to believe that other people can be made to care about your opinions and views and be charmed by the way you state them. Incompetence, contempt, lunacyâ€”once you have these in place, you are set to go.”
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Source : Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Source : "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.
“If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!”
“We need a more widely shared burden on the part of society to keep asking, "What are our collective values, what kind of world do we want to bequeath to our children, and to what extent are these particular technological developments helping us go in those directions? I think that corporations, every bit as much as governments, social movements, and universities - we all have a role to play in asking those questions. I don't think anybody should have a monopoly on that responsibility.”
“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
“The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.”

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