"It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries."

-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Country Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Technology Quotes

“I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.”
“If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.”
“Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.”

Source : "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.
“Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.”
“When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (1852). “The works of Flavius Josephus: the learned and authentic Jewish historian”, p.54
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

Source : Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.46, Dramatic Publishing
“It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.”
“You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.”

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