"To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach."

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Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

Jean Rostand

#Struggle Quotes #Goal Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.”
“My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.”

Source : "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.
“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.”
“Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.”
“Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.”
“If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.”
“It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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