"If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference."

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Source : "Why The West Is Best" by Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. December 15, 2011.

David Landes

#Differences Quotes #Culture Quotes #Development Quotes

“You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
“I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.”
“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”
“Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.”

Source : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail
“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
“But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.”
“I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.”

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