"Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age."

-- James Buchan

#Birthday Quotes #Order Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.”

Source : Michael Anthony (2009). “Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq”, p.188, Adams Media
“The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.”
“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
“I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.”
“If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.”
“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”
“How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.”
“The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

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