"Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by."

-- Oliver Cromwell

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“As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.31, Routledge
“If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose”
“We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.”
“The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.”
“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”
“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.”

Source : "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”

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