"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."

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Henry David Thoreau

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“Complete happiness lies in obedience to AllÄh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.”
“Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.”
“Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.”
“Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.”
“There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.”
“The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.”
“Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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