"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

-- Thomas Hobbes

#Envy Quotes #Competition Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?”
“I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.”
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”

Source : María Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Zed Books
“In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
“That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.”
“...open up your heart and the sky is yours...”
“The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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