"The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the â€“ not so very â€“ long run."

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Source : "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

Dean Acheson

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Tests Quotes

“The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'”
“One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.60
“Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.”
“If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.”
“Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.”
“Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports Â in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.”
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”
“When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.”

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