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As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with  the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain. ↗

— Joanne Fluke

#cookies #cozy-mystery #minnesota #recipes #food

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#beneficial #blues #both #form #guess

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#dominant #hears #heavily #i #life

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes. ↗

— Michael Kors

#closet #clothes #economy #full #going

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time. ↗

— Michael Kors

#i #i think #luxury #more #older

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over! ↗

— Michael Kors

#got #hundred #looks #order #over

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization. ↗

— David Korten

#been #companies #downsizing #globalization #in the past

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization. ↗

— David Korten

#differences #economic #globalization #internationalism #most

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#brussels #citizens #decision #democracy #eu

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. ↗

— David Korten

#buyers #comprised #costs #degree #economy