"Industry is the enemy of melancholy"

--

William F. Buckley, Jr.

#Enemy Quotes #Melancholy Quotes

“..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.”
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
“There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.”
“Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.”
“It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is as Kipling put it, to fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.”
“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?”
“All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.”
“Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration”

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