"My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.143, Penguin
“Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."”
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
“Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.”
“There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.”

Source : "Go Open Source Puts R3m Into Building Linux Channel". tectonic.co.za. January 30, 2006.
“If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, â€˜This sucks, Iâ€™m going to do my own thing.â€™”
“As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.”
“It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.”

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