"There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent."

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Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31, 1960.

Robert Heilbroner

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“Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
“Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
“Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.”

Source : "Someday We'll All Look Back on This and Laugh..." by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 12, 2009.
“I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!”
“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.”
“Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.”
“I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster
“... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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