„As I have said time and again, the focal point of our economy is the individual.“

„Is there some particular reason that you're here?"…
"Not this again."
"Not what again?" said Clary.
"Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes

Quelle: City of Ashes

„There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.“

—  Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

„At some point it will inevitably crash again: as weapons of mass destruction go, unrestricted market economies are among the more subtle but sure.“

—  Ian McDonald, buch The Dervish House

Quelle: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 4, §7 (p. 140)

„Our environment can best be preserved and enhanced by better protection of property rights in a free-market economy.
Private individuals—not socialist governments—are the best stewards of the environment.
China and the old Soviet bloc proved that point once and for all.“

—  Trevor Loudon New Zealand politician

"Green Is the New Red" https://www.theepochtimes.com/green-is-the-new-red_2778949.html

„You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.“

—  Eckhart Tolle, buch A New Earth

Quelle: A New Earth

„It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.“

—  Benito Mussolini Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequent Republican… 1883 - 1945

Mussolini, Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Laboremus, Roma, 1935, p. 38
1930s

„After doing the imaginary landscapes until say 1956, in ’57 I came out with the first Burst painting… There was a different type of space than I had ever used and it was a further clarification of what I was trying to do. The thing that was interesting that it was a return to a focal point, but it was a focal point with the kind of space that existed in traditional painting. Because this was like a solitary image or two images that were just floating in the canvas space. They had to hold the space and they also had to create all the movement – that took place within the rectangle.“

—  Adolph Gottlieb American artist 1903 - 1974

Quelle: 1960s, Interview with Dorothy Seckler, 1967, p. 55-59.

„I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.“

—  Brian Cowen Irish politician 1960

Tansey, Paul and Beesley, Arthur, Tough Budget on way as growth slows down", The Irish Times, 19 October 2007, 2008-05-07 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1019/1192737567227.html,
2007

„We're also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economic policies to make our economy strong again. And to put Americans first again. This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, get the jobs and higher pay that will grow our tax revenues, increase our economic might as a nation.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)

„I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?“

—  Jodi Picoult, buch The Storyteller

Quelle: The Storyteller

„Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.“

—  Lee Kuan Yew First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923 - 2015

Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959
1950s

„You know that there’s been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street. And it is – it’s – people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still, the fundamentals are – of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

Speaking at Jacksonville, Florida the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sell-off of Merrill Lynch, 15 September 2007 http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news925950.html http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2008/09/economic-fundamentals-strong.html
2000s, 2008

„If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.“

—  Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965

„I dream of India becoming one of four most powerful economies of the world. I believe this dream can be made a reality within our life times.“

—  Mukesh Ambani Indian business magnate 1957

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„Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.“

—  Graham Greene English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904 - 1991

„I am conscious of being only an individual struggling weakly against the stream of time. But it still remains in my power to contribute in such a way that, when the theory of gases is again revived, not too much will have to be rediscovered.“

—  Ludwig Boltzmann Austrian physicist 1844 - 1906

S. Rajasekar, N.Athavan, "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann"
Attributed

„I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.“

—  Roald Dahl British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter 1916 - 1990

„The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.“

—  Chen Shui-bian Taiwanese politician 1950

Speech to the World Federation of Taiwanese Associations, March 17, 2002
Pet Phrases, 2002

„Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

Quelle: Total Eclipse