"It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'. Unfortunately we have an economic model that thinks like a crack addict."

-- Naomi Klein

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Drug Quotes

“There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.”

Source : François Viète, T. Richard Witmer (2006). “The Analytic Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”
“There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.”

Source : FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2011
“I couldn't imagine a home without animals.”
“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”
“It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.”
“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”
“Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them”

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