"You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities."

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Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.176, Oxford University Press

Paul Collier

#Responsibility Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Citizenship Quotes

“I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'”
“Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.”
“Winning is the science of being totally prepared”
“Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.”
“Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the femalesâ€”and there is more in that than you might suppose.”
“none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.”
“You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.”
“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”

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