John Ramsay quotes

“The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another,”
-- John Ramsay

Source : "A former SEC director joined the dark pool from 'Flash Boys' and likened the stock market to the Death Star" by Portia Crowe, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2015.

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“Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!”
-- John Ramsay

Source : John Ramsay (1836). “Poems”, p.9

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“By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.”
-- John Ramsay

Source : John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32

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“The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”

Source : Bernd Heinrich (1997). “The Trees in My Forest”, Harpercollins

“The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.”

“Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.”

“There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other, namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population”

Source : "TV host Chris Packham: My really wild idea to tax all kids". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2011.

“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse”

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.”

“It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “Books Do Furnish a Room: Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.141, University of Chicago Press

“Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.”