"The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution."

-- Aristotle

#Moving Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes

“Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad.”
“Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.”
“I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.”
“Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.”
“Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”
“We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.”
“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.”
“Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.”

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