"Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society."

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Source : "Is Economics All There Is?" by Charley Reese, July 18, 2003.

Charley Reese

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“From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”
“If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.”

Source : Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press
“Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.”

Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.
“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.”
“The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.”
“I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.”

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