"I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency."

-- Nicolas Sarkozy

#War Quotes #Competition Quotes #Want Quotes

“I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.”
“Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.”
“Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.”
“The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.”

Source : Joan Robinson (2017). “Economic Philosophy”, p.95, Routledge
“There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center”
“Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.”
“Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.”
“Record making is an extraordinary experience.”

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