User:John Shandy`

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Hello, I'm John Shandy`, but you're welcome to call me Shandy for short. My areas of interest are: international finance, development economics, international development, international relations, geopolitics, risk management, astronomy, and secular humanism. I enjoy meeting new people from around the world and sharing culture. I am a natural born skeptic, but an eager and optimistic problem solver. If there's anything else you might like to know, just ask. :)

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

— Zadok Rabinowitz

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome universe that utterly dwarfs - in time, in space, and in potential - the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

— Carl Sagan

Life is sacred, that is to say it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.

— Albert Einstein

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

— Carl Sagan

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

— Anais Nin

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

— Anne Tyler

	The Good Article barnstar
	For your successful improvement of International Finance Corporation, among others, in order to achieve GA status. Keep up the good work! benzband (talk) 21:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

	The WikiProject Globalization barnstar
	For work on World Bank-Related articles! Thanks for bringing International Finance Corporation to GA Status! Meclee (talk) 22:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Nice work on Global financial system, it's a major improvement from what it was just a few months ago. LK (talk) 02:22, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

	The Citation Barnstar
	Thank you for expanding 1994 economic crisis in Mexico and adding sources where needed. Your job is extraordinary! Happy editing, ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 02:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

		The Good Article Barnstar
		Thanks for being such a cooperative reviewer with Global financial system and I wish you good luck with it for FA. Happy holidays! --Brandon (MrWooHoo) • Talk to Brandon! 18:01, 29 December 2014 (UTC)