"Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being."

-- Paul Dickson

#Law Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Levels Quotes

“You need to balance arrogance and humilitywhen you buy anything, it's an arrogant act. You are saying the markets are gyrating and somebody wants to sell this to me and I know more than everybody else so I am going to stand here and buy it. I am going to pay an 1/8th more than the next guy wants to pay and buy it. That's arrogant. And you need the humility to say 'but I might be wrong.' And you have to do that on everything”
“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
“I really enjoy simple things in life. I just like the idea of bringing together a few ingredients and being able to transform it into something delicious and warm that my friends can sit around and enjoy. Most of my socializing is based around good food and good wine.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.”
“In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.”

Source : "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.
“I never thought electronic music would get as popular in America as it has. When I first came to Vegas in 2009 for my residency - we were they only people playing electronic music at that time.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.34, Pan Macmillan
“I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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