"Hope is what makes the human condition liveable"

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Source : Arthur Kleinman (2007). “What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger”, p.45, Oxford University Press

Arthur Kleinman

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“I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.”
“You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.”
“The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.”
“Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.”
“Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.”
“They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.”
“I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.”
“I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth â€” one shred of evidence.”

Source : "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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