"In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith."

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Source : Eugene Linden (1998). “The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability”

Eugene Linden

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“Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.”
“Not to have an audience is a kind of death.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.44, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.”

Source : Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.8, Weinstein Publishing
“No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.”
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

Source : 1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.
“An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.”
“Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.”

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