Bernard Lietaer Quotes
When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
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I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
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For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
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I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
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What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
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When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.
