"A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be."

-- Stuart Kauffman

#Selfish Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.”
“Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.”
“Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”
“People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.”
“Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.”
“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.”
“I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they donâ€™t.”

Source : "Harold Ford’s New York Times Interview Shoots His Senate Candidacy In The Foot" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.”

Source : "Andrew Bogut Calls Those Who Can’t Understand His Poor Injury Luck ‘Pretty Uneducated’". sports.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

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