"Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants."

-- Amy Chua

#Tolerance Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan
“Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.”
“There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.”
“Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 19, 2013
“Writers talk too much.”
“I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team”
“There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.”
“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.”

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