"Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment."

-- Mariana Mazzucato

#Bridges Quotes #Focus Quotes #Needs Quotes

“International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”
“He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.”
“I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.”

Source : Source: www.okayplayer.com
“The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.”
“I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.”
“The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.”

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition
“I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.”
“It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.”

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