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“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.”

Has Beens Risk Modern Development Corporations Massive Inherent Appreciated Reduction

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”

“The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.”

Would Be Development Experiments Massive

Author:Wolfgang Sachs

“Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine... And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.”

People Knows Want Company Mines Particular Development Indian Massive Coal

Author:George Brandis

“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”

World Today Technology Economy Policy Development Envy Immigration Generous Massive Highways Funding Education System Science And Technology Public Education American Economy Interstate Immigration Policy

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.”

World War Ends Seems Process Development Normal Democratic Corporate War Of The Worlds Massive World War Ii Free World Ominous Democratic Process Ascendancy

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)