"Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error."

-- Frederic Bastiat

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“Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.”
“Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them”
“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”
“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.”

Source : "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.
“Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.”
“There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargainingâ€”anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldnâ€™t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan
“You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.”

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