"One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers."

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Source : "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#Moving Quotes #Missing Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.”
“When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.”
“We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.”
“Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.”
“Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelityâ€”that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rainâ€”that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.”
“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.”
“A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.”

Source : "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.
“To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.”

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