"When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population."

-- Jason W Clay

#Thinking Quotes #Average Quotes #Issues Quotes

“The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.”
“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE
“I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.”
“... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.”
“I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.”
“He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.”
“No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.”

Source : Annotation to "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" by Antonio de Morga. Translated by Austin Craig,
“Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.”

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