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"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."

"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."

"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

"This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

"The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat."
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