Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson
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Any dealer who would sell on a Sunday would jeopardize their license by doing so. Consumers like the fact for six days a week, they can go into any dealership in Colorado and negotiate for a car and they also like the fact that on that 7th day, they go in and look at cars and not negotiate. They really like the peace and quiet. We get a lot of calls from consumers on a lot of issues, never on Sunday closing.
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An elections official who is directly accountable to the people will make the changes desired by the people and the public.
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Beijing is clearly an important opportunity for us, as is London.
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The addition of this breathtaking residence hall provides us the chance to offer the programs and services that build leaders and community in our halls to an even larger number of MSU students,
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For dealers, it comes down to an issue of economics.
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[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
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Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
growth economic myth
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
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Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.
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Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
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The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.
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The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.
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Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.
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For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.