"the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success."

-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Ocean Quotes #White Quotes #Islands Quotes

“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.”
“Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.”
“They are cutting medicare”
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.”
“How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.”
“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.”

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