"Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night."

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Source : Richard Price (1999). “The Wanderers”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Price

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“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”

Source : Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”
“I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.”
“Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.”

Source : Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne
“Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.”
“You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.”
“I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The faÃ§ade is everything.”
“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

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