"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any."

-- Emma Albani

#Beautiful Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #America Quotes

“Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.”
“There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!”
“Abstraction and realism work best together.”
“In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.”
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .”

Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.
“Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.”
“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”

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