"People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment."

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Julian Baggini

#People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.”
“The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.”
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.”

Source : Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

Source : "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.
“The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.”

Source : "Alan Grayson Strikes Back". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.newsweek.com. November 28, 2011.
“It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.”
“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

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