"A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid."

-- Jerry Sabloff

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Impact Quotes

“Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.”
“Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.”
“An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.”
“I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point where you feel that you have something that is your own. And if you don't find an audience for it, you are going to burst.”
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
“One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
“Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.”

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