Gdp Quotes - Page 4

• My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

  Richard Foreman

  Twilight, Expression, Civilization

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• We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Independent, Men, Ideas

  Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.164, Trafford on Demand Pub

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• I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

  Satyajit Ray

  Instruments, Western, Indian

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Objectivity, Data, Events

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• I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Islam, Three, Culture

  "Bill O’Reilly’s Sexism Got Him Booted, But His Racism Got Him Paid. Why?" by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2017.

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• The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we begin to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society.

  Hazel Henderson

  Japan, Europe, Energy

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• Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pleasure, Ends, Western

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  Country, Reading, Mean

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• The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Generations, Debt

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• Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

  Helen Clark

  Fundamentals, Dignity, Sustainability

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• I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Sitting, Reelection

  "Warren Buffett's 5-Minute Plan to Fix the Deficit" by Alex Crippen, www.cnbc.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Media, Pie

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 2". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 27, 2006.

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• It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Civilization, People

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• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Order

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• Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Oil, America

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• Too much of the income gains go to too few people, even though all of the stakeholders worked together to make their companies successful. By failing to put enough income into more hands, the GDP grows slower and consumers manage to meet their needs by incurring high levels of debt.

  Philip Kotler

  Successful, Hands, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Six, Putin

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Europe, Half, Poppies

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.

  Dale Jamieson

  Answers, Statistics, Influence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Order, Elements, World

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• The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Order, Years, Growth

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

  Dyan Cannon

  Stars, Opposites, Plans

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• If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

  John Buford

  Choices, Troops, Western

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