"How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living."

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Edwin Way Teale

#Space Quotes #Birth Quotes #Length Quotes

“The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.”

Source : "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.
“Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.”
“The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.”
“I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.”
“Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”
“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“One of the stories I love is how Gutenbergâ€™s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadnâ€™t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.”
“I like to be on the edge of the possible.”

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