"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Despair Quotes #Boring Quotes #Amusing Quotes

“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage
“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
“What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.”
“It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.”
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.”
“I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.”
“The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

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