"What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?"

-- Bertrand Russell

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“You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a job, replanting a forest, insulating the attic, destroying old farm equipment, employing Native Americans, commuting to work by bicycle - but only if the bike is regularly used for a substantial portion of travel - or buying a plug-in hybrid sports car, or buying a recreational vehicle. I mean there are hundreds of them, and most of them are nuts.”
“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“Iâ€™ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, thatâ€™s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew Iâ€™ve been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.”
“The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.”
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.”
“The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of Nature are, to speak after the manner of men, Thoughts of God, in which all lives, that is to say, He is.”

Source : "Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke".
“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”

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