"Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Thomas Pogge

#Country Quotes #Commodity Quotes #Reason Quotes

“When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.”
“The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative”
“We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.”
“Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.”
“Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.”
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.”
“If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns”

Source : Song: If It Were Up to Me
“Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.”

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