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“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.”

“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”

World Mean War Country Artist Culture Asks Understanding Moral Economy Identity Amount Europe Importance War Of The Worlds Germany Massive Strongest Berlin Second World War

Author:Cate Blanchett

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”

Mind Important Language Economy Amount Tools Treats Increase Range Complexity Users Topics Vocabulary Utility Decrease

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.”

Has Beens Wisdom Values Fall Three Politics Lost Economy Sacrifice Wind Amount Property Debt Liberalism Contracts Catastrophe Cautious Sowing Whirlwind

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Confiscation in any form is an unhealthy solution for a real disease. It amounts to telling men that because they are economically crippled, they must abandon all efforts to get well and allow the state to provide them with free wheelchairs.”

Men Wells Real States Form Politics Effort Economy Amount Disease Solutions Liberalism Abandon Unhealthy Crippled Get Well Wheelchairs

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.”

“It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.”

People Giving Important Enough Running Race Economy Amount Limits Access Candidates

Author:Christie Hefner

“Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.”

Writing Technology Economy Information Huge Amount Phones Spending Checks More Money Cds Laptops Databases

Author:Jay Chiat

“When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.”

Feels Self Moments Facts Might Certain Choices Can Do Accepting Economy Humility Amount Indulgence Self Indulgence

Author:Charlie Huston

“Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.”

Done Seems Energy Heaven Waiting Economy Amount Increase Burning Urgency Decrease Work To Be Done

Author:Edith Stein

“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”

Ends Problem Economy Amount Fundamentals Consumers Not Sure Sheer Carbon Trading Consuming Greener

Author:Michael Pollan

“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”

Needs Persons Energy Economy Creative Possibility Personality Amount Response Enormous Variety Denial Traits Richness Creative Energy Depriving

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.”

Play Easy Existence Economy Risk Amount Equity Unhealthy Easy Money

Author:Anat R. Admati

“Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.”

Politics Challenges Economy Amount Climate Change Significant California Carbon Vibrancy

Author:Jerry Brown

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.”

Care President Economy Wife Amount Size Health Care Italian Lots Of Money

Author:Jack Kemp

“We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.”

People Needs Jobs America Economy Century Amount Higher Skills Limits Access Budgets Regulation 21st Century Obamacare Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Long Country Reason Enough Certain Struggle Economy Pride Amount Our Country Conquer No Reason Modesty Conquer The World National Pride

Author:Ratan Tata

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