"It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine."

-- Edward Abbey

#Feet Quotes #Long Quotes #Support Quotes

“Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.”

Source : Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson (2012). “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty”, p.75, Profile Books
“One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.”

Source : Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.50, ASCD
“Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.”

Source : "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.
“This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”
“It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.”
“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.”
“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).

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