"Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment challenge - businesses invest where there they see technological or market opportunity."

-- Mariana Mazzucato

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“Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with [Bernard Leach]. I mean, when we first went there, gee, I mean, this was a man who had written a book. He was, in a sense, God, and we for the first couple of weeks called him Mr. Leach.”
“God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.117, Harper Collins
“Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.”
“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press
“We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.”
“reality can be magnificent even when life is not.”

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