Gdp Quotes

• There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

  Herman Gorter

  Russia, Europe, Differences

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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  Ornette Coleman

  Color, Titles, World

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Ties, Western Culture

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sheep, Media, Want

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

  Michael Novak

  Character, Years, Bishops

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• It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

  Jerry Springer

  Civilization, Gum, Ends

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• The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Musical, Western Music, Patterns

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• The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Country, Western Culture, Aristocracy

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Russia, States, Western

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• Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Years, Lasts, Western

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

  Audrey Meadows

  Men, Roles, Actors

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• Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

  Sergio Aragones

  Humorous, Stories, Want

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• We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Christian, Work, Islam

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• Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

  Ray Dalio

  Choices, Support, Promise

  "Here's The Most Brilliant Thing Ray Dalio Said At His Interview Last Week" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Sustainability

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• India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

  Jairam Ramesh

  Growth, India, Needs

  Jairam Ramesh (2015). “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India”, p.139, Oxford University Press

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• Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Government, Goal

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, War, World

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Suffering

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

  Frances O'Grady

  Years, Growth, Balance

  "Pay equality and strong unions will put Britain back to work" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2012.

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• Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

  Ken Livingstone

  Three, Four, Pay

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• In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Government, Choices

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Play, Joy

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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