"Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue"

-- Alexander Pope

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“Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.”
“The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.”
“Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.”

Source : Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black
“I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.”
“Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,”
“What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.”
“Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks its own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.”
“My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.”

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