"Demagogues always do well in economic downturns."

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Source : "US warned to be wary of wingnuts". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

John Avlon

#Economic Quotes #Wells Quotes #Downturn Quotes

“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”
“To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand
“Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.”
“Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)”
“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.”
“I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.”

Source : "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.”
“To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.”

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