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The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #china #collective #come #continuing

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. ↗

— John Hutton

#best #best way #both #businesses #civil

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. ↗

— John Hutton

#account #any #capita #counties #europe

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#did #i #like #me #put

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#fix #ford #great #had #i

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#christian #hour #house #i #learned

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#contact #never #off #only #quarters

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#been #bit #concerned #embarrassing #end

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#doors #known #perception #the doors #things