Incidences Or Incidents Quotes & Sayings

The gross domestic product (GDP) was created in the 1930s to measure the value of the sum total of economic goods and services generated over a single year. The problem with the index is that it counts negative as well as positive economic activity. If a country invests large sums of money in armaments, builds prisons, expands police security, and has to clean up polluted environments and the like, it's included in the GDP. Simon Kuznets, an American who invented the GDP measurement tool, pointed out early on that "[t]he welfare of a nation can . . . scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income."28 Later in life, Kuznets became even more emphatic about the drawbacks of relying on the GDP as a gauge of economic prosperity. He warned that "[d]istinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth . . . . Goals for 'more' growth should specify more growth of what and for what."29 — Jeremy Rifkin

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society
call it communism, if you will
in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. — Michael Burawoy

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering. — Mike Krieger

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back. — Steven Cojocaru

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing. — Gabriela Sabatini

In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available. — Merlin Olsen

Sign up for the daily work, not the payoff. — Felicia Day

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. — Rod Taylor

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. — Chris Matthews

Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cutting edge of the Culture's interfering diplomatic policy, the elite of the elite, in a society which abhorred elitism. Even before the war, its standing and its image within the Culture had been ambiguous. It was glamorous but dangerous, possessed of an aura of roguish sexiness - there was no other word for it - which implied predation, seduction and even violation ... No other part of the Culture more exactly represented what the society as a whole really stood for, or was more militant in the application of he Culture's fundamental beliefs. Yet no other part embodied less of the society's day-to-day character. — Iain Banks

I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything. — Katherine Heigl

Embrace the human race — Thabiso Monkoe

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. — Steven Wright