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The G-20 meeting provides a forum for a new kind of global economic cooperation. Now is the time to work together to restore the sustained growth that can only come from open and stable markets that can harness innovation, support entrepreneurship and advance opportunity – US president Barack Obama.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he believes world leaders will "rise to the challenge" of dealing with the global economic crisis at the G20 summit meeting in London on Thursday April 2, 2009.
The prime minister said he hoped the meeting would ensure "global solutions" were put in place to tackle the downturn.
The prime minister said he hoped the meeting would ensure "global solutions" were put in place to tackle the downturn.
The G20 brings together the world's most powerful nations that collectively represent 85% of the world's economy. The group was originally set up after the Asian financial crisis in 1999 to discuss international co-operation among finance ministers and central bankers - Guardian UK
“They were apes only yesterday.
Give them time.”
“Once an ape-always an ape.”…
“No, it will be different…Come back here in an age or so and you shall see…”
The gods, discussing the Earth, in the motion picture version of H.G. Wells’ The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
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Give them time.”
“Once an ape-always an ape.”…
“No, it will be different…Come back here in an age or so and you shall see…”
The gods, discussing the Earth, in the motion picture version of H.G. Wells’ The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
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He [Coleridge] talked on for ever: and you wished him to talk on for ever- William Hazlitt (1778-1830), lectures on the English Poet.
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Leadership is like the Abominable Snowman, whose footprints are everywhere but nowhere to be seen – Warren Bennis (1925-) and Burt Nanus (1936-) , Leading Others, Managing Yourself.
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It was involuntary. They sank my boat- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), when asked how he became a war hero. In Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, 4.9, 1965.
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help- Judith Martin.
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It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair – Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), The condemned Playground.
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Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student?
Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days – Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Cherry Orchard, I.
Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days – Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) The Cherry Orchard, I.
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