Martin Jacques Quotes
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
