"For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost."

-- Lawrence Lessig

#May Quotes #Gains Quotes #Lost Quotes

“All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.”
“No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.”
“When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.”
“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan”

Source : Regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country, El Correo, (p. 23), April 9, 2005.
“There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.”
“As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.”
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

Source : Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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