“The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.” Has BeensLiteratureGrowthTearsNeededParody Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.” WorldBelieveHumansHandsGamesUnderstandingGrowthHuman BeingsAnimalRaceProgressViolenceStageNeededMoralityGoodnessUltimateRefuseConvictionIntellectInvisibleDullDivinityMeaninglessBrutalLaddersMonstrousAscending Author:Stefan Zweig
“F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.” WayGivingImportantPastGrowthAbilityFailingNeededLessonsFindingsBoxesCoreThis LifeWhere You AreLife ExperienceBetter WaysInvitingPast LifeImportant Lessons Author:Gary Busey
“The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.” ActionGrowthTypeNeededBalanceObstaclesReformRemovePatents Author:Viet D. Dinh
“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.” LittlesCountryLife IsNationsGrowthWealthQualityMaterialsNeededCrisisFoundationAddFinancialAssumptionConsumptionQuality Of LifePoorestWellbeingDefaultFinancial CrisisMaterial WealthBetter Quality Of Life Book:Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
“What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.” StatesSocialGrowthTermDealsRiskModernNeededInnovationInvestmentRewardsMissionsCompactNew Deal Author:Mariana Mazzucato