"The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties."

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Allan Bloom

#Philosopher Quotes #Psychological Quotes #Economic Quotes

“There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.”
“I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.”
“I'm so trying to give up meat.”
“No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”
“Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.”
“Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.”

Source : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.152, Hachette UK
“How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.”
“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.”

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