Achleitner Paul Quotes & Sayings

Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway. — B. J. Daniels

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in. — Patrick DeWitt

c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. — Beth Hoffman

Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt. — Paul Achleitner

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point. — Paul Achleitner

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom. — Paul Achleitner

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives. — Paul Achleitner

A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction. — Paul Achleitner

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred. — Paul Achleitner

One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay "in shape" so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is "anarchist calisthenics." Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it's only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you'll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you'll be ready. — James C. Scott

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian. — Paul Achleitner

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back. — Paul Achleitner

Live like you were dying, Love because you are. — Mark Green

This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way ...
It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be. — Charlotte Eriksson

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner. — Paul Achleitner

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants. — Paul Achleitner

For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule. — Paul Achleitner

Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to. — Paul Achleitner

He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm because it left no residue behind. — George Orwell