"Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, weâ€™ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce."

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Source : Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

Gabriel Zaid

#Book Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more.”

Source : "Sam Allardyce: the big man gets the biggest job in football" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2016.
“I gave up before birth.”
“You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.”
“When an era needs it, Kamen Rider will definitely return.”
“... the absence of theistic belief.”

Source : "A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1948.
“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.”
“And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.”
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”

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