Vivienne Westwood Quotes
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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Barack Obama is an economic patriot.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.
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We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.
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Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
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My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.
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What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
