"The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers."

-- Will Wilkinson

#Kids Quotes #Years Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”
“Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things”
“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”
“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.”
“As Iâ€™ve said, Iâ€™ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix â€œaâ€ means â€œnotâ€ or â€œwithoutâ€). But I have problems with the word â€œatheism.â€ It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the bandâ€™s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.”
“I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.”
“Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.”

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