"Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Choices Quotes #Novelty Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.”
“study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.”
“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”

Source : Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
“I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.”
“Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.”
“Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.”

Source : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.”

Source : "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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