"The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism."

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Source : 1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

Albion Woodbury Small

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“Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.”
“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.126, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.”
“The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.”

Source : "Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.
“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 344, 1895.
“bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.103
“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.”

Source : Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.54, Editions Didier Millet
“At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.”

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