"New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate."

-- Joan Robinson

#Ideas Quotes #Gaps Quotes #Repetition Quotes

“In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.”

Source : David Rakoff (2005). “Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems”, p.222, Anchor
“Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.”

Source : Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.110
“People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.”
“Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.”
“The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.”
“There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.”
“Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.”
“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.”

Source : Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Art of Meditation”, p.54, BookBaby

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