"We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves."

-- Simon Sinek

#Lasts Quotes #Competing Quotes

“The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.”

Source : Jason Brennan (2012). “Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know?”, p.119, Oxford University Press
“The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...”
“If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.”
“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Source : "Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.
“Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.”
“We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.”
“When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat.”

Source : "Paul Offit On The Anti-Vaccine Movement". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 7, 2011.
“It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)”

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