"Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge."

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Source : "Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.

Martin Wolf

#Challenges Quotes #Growth Quotes #Century Quotes

“The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.”
“Sheâ€™s easy to like. Iâ€™ve never understood why thatâ€™s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.”
“Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.”
“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
“X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.”
“A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.”
“Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.”
“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.”

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