"Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution."

-- John W. Gardner

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes

“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.”
“Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.”
“I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.”
“ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it ...”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage
“I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”
“I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.”

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