"So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Cathy O'Neil

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bonus Quotes

“Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2010). “God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist”, p.132, Prometheus Books
“The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.”
“She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.”

Source : BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”
“...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.”
“Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'”
“The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.”
“The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.”

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