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“The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.”
Source : R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”
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“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.251, Random House
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“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.”
Source : Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association
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“Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.”
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“I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.”
Source : John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
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“I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.”
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“An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.”
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“People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.”
