Pankaj Mishra Quotes
In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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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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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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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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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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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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There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
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I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
