"To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world."

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Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

Richard Rorty

#Self Quotes #World Quotes #Replacements Quotes

“The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.”
“God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.21
“In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.”
“Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.”

Source : "British imams to tackle radicals in mosques" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2005.
“I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.”
“Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.”

Source : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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