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“Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.”

Knows Parent Economy Failing Tolerate Turkeys Menus

Author:Jamie Oliver

“The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.”

World Humans Character Problem Culture Found Answers Economy Failing Goes On Innocent Producers Guilty Consumers Consumerism Ecology Overconsumption Dividing Human Problems

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.”

Whole Economy Failing Crisis Fisheries

Author:Daniel Pauly

“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”

School Principles Economy Failing Models Organized Socialist Public School Socialist Economy

Author:David Boaz

“The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Failing Conditions Labor Rely Liberalism Misfortunes Venture Prey Rely Upon Misfortunes Of Others

Book:Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895

Source: Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.”

Needs Wisdom Politics Economy Failing Liberalism Woe Bankers Heed

Author:Ogden Nash

“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.”

“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.”

“If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.”

Ifs Doe Made Country Economy Failing Car Citizens Connected Spain No Money Euro Portugal Slovakia

Author:Iveta Radicova

“The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.”

Nations Economy Failing Security Investing Financial Retirement Multiple Flawed

Author:John C. Bogle

“We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.”

“Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.”

People Doe Sometimes Government Fall Christ Economy Failing One Thing Share Pure Eternity Pure Love

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland