"Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that."

-- Nicholas Bloom

#Jobs Quotes #People Quotes #Mexican Quotes

“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.”
“Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds”
“It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.”
“Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?”
“So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.”
“Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.”
“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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