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In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. ↗

— Herbert Read

#early #essential #even #experiences #first

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. ↗

— Herbert Read

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It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. ↗

— Herbert Read

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