“One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.”
— Jane Smiley
Author: Jane Smiley
Category: power
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“I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.”
— Harry Connick, Jr.
Author: Harry Connick, Jr.
Category: music
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“God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.”
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
Category: work
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“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Category: success
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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.”
— Augustus Y. Napier
Author: Augustus Y. Napier
Category: society
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“Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.”
— Jeff Bezos
Author: Jeff Bezos
Category: leadership
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“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”
— Thom Yorke
Author: Thom Yorke
Category: music
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“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.”
— Marcus V. Pollio
Author: Marcus V. Pollio
Category: learning
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“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: men
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“Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services – some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.”
— Malcolm Fraser
Author: Malcolm Fraser
Category: medical
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
— Immanuel Kant
Author: Immanuel Kant
Category: wisdom
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