Freckleton Mandeville Quotes & Sayings

It is a sad irony that many countries possessing natural resources with high income potential have floundered into civil strife as factions compete for their share of the bounty, often monopolized by despotic leaders. Sharing the resource wealth across the country is one suggested way to defuse the threat of political conflict, usually by transferring part of the earnings to local area governments and, in particular, to the area where the natural resource is exploited, be it oil, diamonds or other minerals. In some cases, this fiscal devolution route has limited the conflict, if the amount transferred is large enough. However, in others it has triggered conflict by giving local dissidents the means to pay for insurrection.57 It turns out that the optimum way to defuse or prevent potential conflict is to pay direct cash transfers to all individuals, which would make it much more difficult for secessionist movements or local political parties to appropriate the resources. — Guy Standing

Motivation is like fire - unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values. — Shiv Khera

We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others. — Ned Vizzini

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. — Marc Bloch

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life. — Mohamed ElBaradei

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. — Pete Fountain

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is. — Jason Priestley

We often work with young first-time founders at TechStars. Most of them have bought into the myth that you have to work constantly in order to succeed. We think you just have to work productively, and there's a huge difference. To — David G. Cohen

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. — Juliette Binoche

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change. — Allen Wheelis

Everytime you smile, I smile And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you. — Taylor Swift

He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom. — Aporva Kala