"Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies."

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Source : Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Ignorance Quotes #Remedy Quotes

“Everybody counts or nobody counts”

Source : Michael Connelly (2009). “The Last Coyote”, p.10, Allen & Unwin
“What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one.”
“In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.”
“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”
“The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.”
“Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 15, 2013

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