6 Quotes & Sayings By Christine Amsden

Christine Amsden, Ph.D., is the author of the international best-seller The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? She is also coauthor of the book The End of Poverty. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic , The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray. Christine Amsden
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My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie. Christine Amsden
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It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control. Christine Amsden
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I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper Christine Amsden
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You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore. Christine Amsden