"I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off."

-- Harold Brodkey

#Sleep Quotes #Odds Quotes #Decay Quotes

“People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.”
“If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd`s "Freebird" live.”
“That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."”
“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.”
“Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?”
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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