"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts"

-- Saint John Chrysostom

#Poverty Quotes #Reason Quotes #Poor Quotes

“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”

Source : Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books
“It would be nice to really shed the corsets.”
“I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.”
“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”
“The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.”
“The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.”

Source : Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”
“The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.”
“President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.”

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