"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement."

-- Will Durant

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“Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.”

Source : "Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish" by Angela Monaghan, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2014.
“Movies are about escape.”
“It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.”
“Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
“[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully lied to us. This is the real story, and it reveals, once again, the character and mentality of this entire administration, for Gruber was speaking not merely for himself but about the entire administration, beginning with Obama.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

Source : Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269
“If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit.”

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