"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Political Quotes #Decision Quotes #Doe Quotes

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.”

Source : "The Outsiders". Taglines, www.imdb.com. March 25, 1983.
“I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.”
“Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.”
“Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects”
“If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren't you?”
“If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
“One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.”
“Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that Godâ€™s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.”

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