"As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere."

-- Ahmet Davutoglu

#Academic Quotes #Lifestyle Quotes

“I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.”
“If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.”
“Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.”
“I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan
“The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.
“Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.28
“China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.”
“Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.”

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