"self-interest usually brings injustice with it."

-- Catherine the Great

#Self Quotes #Injustice Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.”
“Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.”
“I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.”
“If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.”
“Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.”
“Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. Itâ€™s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be â€˜the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever madeâ€™.”
“Never say, â€˜Noâ€™, never say, â€˜I cannotâ€™, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty”
“We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.”

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