"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."

-- Amartya Sen

#Teacher Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.”
“It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.”

Source : George E. Vaillant (2012). “Adaptation to Life”, p.374, Harvard University Press
“We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.”
“If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.”
“While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.”
“All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.”
“These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.”
“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.”

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