"Itâ€™s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now itâ€™s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times."

-- Niall Ferguson

#Our Generation Quotes #Average Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”
“I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.”
“Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.”
“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”

Source : Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press
“And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.”
“You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown”
“This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.”
“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.”

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