"Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!"

-- Walter E. Williams

#Choices Quotes #Causes Quotes #Scarcity Quotes

“If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.”
“The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.”
“It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.”
“It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent”
“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]”
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
“The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated”
“Men take more pains to mask than mend.”

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