"I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Hans-Werner Sinn

#Party Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Political Quotes

“Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.”
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
“My religion is life, and my church is the universe.”
“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”

Source : Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.107, Vintage
“Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.”
“It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.”
“No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.”

Source : Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books

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