"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."

-- Joseph Stiglitz

#Engagement Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Every artists wants to be applauded”
“Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.”
“Weep for the lives your wishes never led.”
“Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
“A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.”
“To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.”
“Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”

Source : Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.221, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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