"I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.”

Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.9, Hoover Press
“The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.”
“Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.”
“I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival”
“By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.”
“Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.”
“It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.”

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