"The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

#People Quotes #Income Quotes #Rich Quotes

“I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.”
“Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.”
“The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.”
“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”
“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.”

Source : "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.
“Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.”
“Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.”

Source : Song: Luka, Album: Solitude Standing
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