"All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

#Loss Quotes #Matter Quotes #Gains Quotes

“I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu”
“Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.”
“Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)”
“Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.”

Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.18, Penguin
“You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.”
“The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.”

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