"Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world."

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Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber

Alexander Gordon Smith

#World Quotes #Weight Quotes #Earth Quotes

“We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.”
“You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.”
“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”
“There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”
“Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.”
“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.”
“Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.”
“The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith backs tax breaks for married couples" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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