"...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling."

-- Leon Trotsky

#Doe Quotes #Exhaling Quotes #Crisis Quotes

“Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.”
“I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.”
“If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?”
“I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.”

Source : "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
“The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.”
“War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.”
“Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.”
“An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.”

Source : "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

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