"Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it."

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Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
“Arithmetic is the death of story.”

Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.248, Macmillan
“But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.”
“Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.”
“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”
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“The American dream is at jeopardy. This president [Obama] has defined the American dream as more dependence on the government. We need to restore the American dream so it's more about opportunity and growth and not redistribution.”
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born...”

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