"When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.”
“I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.”
“And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.”

Source : "Emerging Ally: President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2002.
“Ive had the most wonderful life.”
“A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.101, Ravenio Books
“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Jessica: â€œYou great drunken jackass!â€ Dain: â€œI did not give you leave to use my Christian name.”
“As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.”

Source : Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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