"They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it."

-- Andre Gide

#Action Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Rand". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.
“That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.”
“The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...”

Source : Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.97, Canongate Books
“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”

Source : "Citizen’s Book Club: Would Adam Smith Vote Obama?" by Lex Paulson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
“The traditional media does not have the kind of reporting muscle on the ground that it used to. I was very hopeful that the new digital media operations would pick up that slack, and a lot of them are trying and they're doing creative things. But none of them can scale appropriately to have enough journalistic firepower as well.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.”
“You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament in a way that entailed getting good stuff, material stuff, and having a deep relationship with God. There was no contradiction. And the idea just moves forward from there.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.”

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