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“Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.”
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“Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.”
Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.18, Basic Books
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“I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.”
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“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.”
Source : "The nature of the firm" by Ronald Coase in Economica, Volume 4, No. 16 (p. 393), onlinelibrary.wiley.com. November 1937. 
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“Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.”
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“We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.”
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“To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.”
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“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”
