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- I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions,…
- Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose…
- As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It…
- There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to…
- It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
- More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
- My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often…
- Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more…
- More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life,…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle