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David Korten

"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."

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"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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David Korten
"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy."

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David Korten
"Global competition is about winners and losers."

Competition

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David Korten
"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."

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David Korten
"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living."

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David Korten
"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."

Experience

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David Korten
"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining."

Economy

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David Korten
"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay."

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David Korten
"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."

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David Korten
"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."

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"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."

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