William Easterly Quotes
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.
William Easterly
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
Wendy Cope
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
Charles Darwin
Choose the positive. - You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Bruce Lee
I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
Labrinth
LSD
Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
Philip Kaufman
...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
Randall Jarrell
God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.
Ali Hewson
The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.
Olara Otunnu
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.
William Easterly
