"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

-- John Maynard Keynes

#Ties Quotes #Errors Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.”
“Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”

Source : The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}
“Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.”
“You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.”
“I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.”
“... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.”
“Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”

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