"The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century Â– every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living Â– has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency."

-- Paul Krugman

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“I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.”
“Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?”
“None of us really know where we're going.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Great men can't be ruled.”
“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
“Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to have kids, it's that I'm having a hard time relating to people I know.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of othersâ€™ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.”

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