Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
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As regards the celebrated "struggle for life," it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
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Banking today is like playing Russian roulette with someone else's head.
-- Anonymous Banker (Swimming with Sharks)
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
-- P. B. Medawar
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin
Life is short. And we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So, be swift to love, and make haste to be kind.
-- Henri Amiel (1868)
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler
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