"Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics."

-- Yehuda Amichai

#Drinking Quotes #Writing Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.”
“There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.”
“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.”
“Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.”
“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.18, Penguin UK
“Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.”
“Indifference is the strongest contempt.”
“Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.”

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