"We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption."

-- Pope Francis

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“... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.”
“Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.”

Source : Enson Inoue (2014). “Live As a Man. Die As a Man. Become a Man.”, CreateSpace
“Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield
“If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.”
“He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.”
“Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.”
“I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.”

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