Edward Glaeser Quotes
One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Development and good conservation planning are not mutually exclusive.
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Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.
