"The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well."

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Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.87, Harvard University Press

John Rawls

#Training Quotes #Cost Quotes #Way Quotes

“It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.
“I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.”
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”
“We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.”
“It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.”
“I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.”
“People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.”

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