"The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide."

-- Herman E. Daly

#Development Quotes #World Quotes #Problem Quotes

“In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.”
“Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.”
“We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.”
“And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.”
“Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.”
“There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.”
“The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.”

Source : Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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