"The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved."

-- Augustus De Morgan

#Gambling Quotes #Circles Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.”
“I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.”
“It's likeâ€”I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could doâ€¦I can do.”
“The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.”
“Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.”
“When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.”
“Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.259, Harvard University Press
“As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.”

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