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"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."
"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration."
"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."
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