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  • There has been some conditionalities in the sense that this debt relief is supposed to release resources to be devoted to education, healthcare and infrastructure, for example. In the past African government made such promises but they never carried them out.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Past Quotes , Promise Quotes
  • We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Dream Quotes , Past Quotes
  • In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan M. Taylor Quotes , Country Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Moving Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes