"It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty."

-- Albert Einstein

#Competition Quotes #Progress Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.”
“A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.”
“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”

Source : "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
“I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.”
“Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.”
“Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.”
“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...”
“The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”

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