"When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative."

-- Harold S. Kushner

#Alternatives Quotes #Dilemma Quotes

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”

Source : FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”
“Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.”
“I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.”

Source : "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.
“The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.
“Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them â€˜unfinishedâ€™ the way Chopinâ€™s Ã‰tudes are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.”
“The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.”
“I feel that you always pay when you are a child.”
“Without acting, I cannot breathe.”

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