John Perkins

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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
- John Perkins
Collection: Education
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
- John Perkins
Collection: People
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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
- John Perkins
Collection: Broken
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
- John Perkins
Collection: Fate
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
- John Perkins
Collection: Fate