"You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live."

-- Ravi Zacharias

#Trying Quotes #World Quotes #Contrast Quotes

“I have a strong constitution.”
“What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.”
“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.”
“The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.7, e-artnow
“But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly”

Source : Song: Born to Fly, Album: Stronger, 2000
“Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”
“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.”
“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

Source : "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq". Book by Thomas E. Ricks, armedforcesjournal.com. July 2006.

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