"I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts."

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Stress Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Income Quotes

“Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.”
“The trouble with people is they don't understand people.”

Source : David Goodis (2012). “Nightfall: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.9, Library of America
“I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.”
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”

Source : Marcelo Gleiser (2014). “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning”, p.14, Basic Books
“My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.”
“It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.”
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
“We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.”

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