"In any country, corruption tends to increase when……" — Katherine Boo
"In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down."
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17 Quotes by Katherine Boo
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as…
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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did…
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with…
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More Advancement Quotes
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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