"Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book."

-- Dov Davidoff

#Book Quotes #Rapper Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.”
“Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.”
“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”
“Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.”
“The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.”
“In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.”
“Iâ€™ve never seen an exploding helicopter. Iâ€™ve never seen anybody go and blow somebodyâ€™s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way, Iâ€™ve seen people withdraw, Iâ€™ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and Iâ€™ve myself done all these things. So I can understand them. What we are saying is so gentle. Itâ€™s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.”
“My family had liberal positions.”

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