"Both in the US and throughout the world, there needs to be a growing presence of public development banks. These banks would make loans based on social welfare criteria - including advancing a full-employment, climate-stabilization agenda - as opposed to scouring the globe for the largest profit opportunities regardless of social costs.... Public development banks have always played a central role in supporting the successful economic development paths in the East Asian economies."

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Robert Pollin

#Successful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #World Quotes

“Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.”

Source : "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.
“It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.”
“I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.”

Source : Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor
“One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.”
“Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.63, The Floating Press
“But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.”
“I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.”
“Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?”

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