". . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness."

-- Karl Popper

#People Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Wickedness Quotes

“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source : Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press
“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”
“Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten”
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1993). “Colony”, G K Hall & Company
“One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.”
“I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.”
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.”

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