"Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste."

-- Stuart L. Hart

#Country Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”
“To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.”
“Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'”
“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
“One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia if our attitude is well, "no," or all of our processes are just going to be a way of making sure you can't get to "yes." They'll just go somewhere else. Those jobs will be somewhere else.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.”
“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”
“I mean I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.”

Source : "Q&A – Brendan Sexton III (Belko Royce)". Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com. September 2011.

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