"While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.”
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.”
“Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.”
“Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.”
“Kurds are going to have to strike a bargain with Bashar Assad that will keep them in the Syrian state and under some kind of Syrian authority, so that they can have the protection of international legitimacy and the Syrian army against the Turks. How they can bargain with Assad is unclear. What kind of negotiations they can come to, unclear. We will see whether they get something like the Kurds in Iraq, which is a large measure of autonomy, or something less than that. That will be one of the big negotiations to come out of this process.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.”

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