"The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view."

-- Michael Steinhardt

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“A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.”
“He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.”
“If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.”
“One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place ...”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.”
“It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.”
“I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.”
“In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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