"Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past."

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Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

Ha-Joon Chang

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Ladders Quotes

“Always follow your heart and have faith in yourself and believe in the Lord and He will believe in you.”

Source : "Vernon Davis ‘The NFL Playoffs’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 15, 2012.
“To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.”

Source : Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.156
“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24
“I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.”
“If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.”
“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”
“The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.”

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