"Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble")."

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Source : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

Jim Stanford

#Turkeys Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.”
“A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.”
“When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.”
“If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.”
“I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.”
“I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.”
“The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.”

Source : Source: progressive.org

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