"In financial terms, my sense is that the……" — Pico Iyer
"In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site.
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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More Accelerate Quotes
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars…
— Jeff Sessions
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The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate…
— Al Gore
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind…
— Joel Osteen
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that…
— Paul Polman
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So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the…
— Thomas Dolby
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because…
— Nicolas Roeg
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Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive…
— John F. Kennedy
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