"There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Helene D. Gayle

#Powerful Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.”
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”
“Working with people on a field turns me on.”
“Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.”
“When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.”
“The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...”

Source : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
“We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah, Samuel Obeng (1997). “Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah”, Afram Pubns Ghana Ltd
“I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.”

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