"If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient."

-- Amartya Sen

#Justice Quotes #Choices Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.”
“And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.”
“PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you”

Source : Jon Winokur (2013). “Encyclopedia Neurotica”, p.276, St. Martin's Press
“A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.”
“My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.”
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.”
“It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.”
“I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.89, Head of Zeus

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