"Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds."

-- John Ruskin

#Clouds Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Sight Quotes

“Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.”
“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

Source : Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast, March 24, 2010.
“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”

Source : "Capital and the State". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1924.
“I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.”
“Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.”

Source : Mahathir bin Mohamad (2002). “Reflections on Asia”, Pelanduk Publications Sdn Bhd
“If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.”
“Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

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