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"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the
by desdiv 7y ago
"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."
- Robert F. Kennedy
- eaenki 7y agoThe Kennedys speeches were on another level
- swarnie_ 7y agoWhat a difference 50 years have made.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y agoThat's not badly put, but aircraft carriers don't grow on trees, and it seems that historians correlate GDP with military success. Which has been bumming out people for much longer than that example of Greece becoming a province of the Roman Republic.