"The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,"

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Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

Michel Chossudovsky

#Islands Quotes #Crowns Quotes #Banking Quotes

“Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.”
“I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.”
“There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughts/feelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.”
“If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with Love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.”

Source : Eileen Caddy (2017). “God Spoke to Me”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.”
“There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.”

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