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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

“We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down”

Today Left Social Economic Broken Crisis Protection Practicals Efficiency Consensus Broken Down Economic Efficiency

Author:Andre Glucksmann

“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”

Soul Light Lying Jesus Lost Left Darkness Dying Brother Broken Spread Bitter Shore Haste Heathen Tidings Truth Of God Sod Lost Brother

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds”

Use Fighting Winning Left Wonder Broken Arms Thirds Strategy Rounds Bones Quitting Broken Bone

Author:Rich Franklin

“It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.”

Purpose Left Broken Vain Rough Endeavor

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.”

Humans Desire Left Natural Fire Broken Prison Forests Urges Forest Fires Broken Relationship Prison Time

Author:Amy Sedaris

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.”

Firsts Heart Left Behinds Boys Broken Nervous Strings Typical First Love Breakdown Charismatic Bad Boy Nervous Breakdown

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic