Life is more than a job; jobs are more than a paycheck; and a country is more than its wealth.
~ William Deresiewicz
:::
Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
Quote, Unquote
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
:::
Quote, Unquote
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
~ Jonathan Swift
:::
Quote, Unquote
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
:::
Quote, Unquote
When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Bismarck is reported to have responded, that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
~ George Louis Beer
:::
Quote, Unquote
The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.
~ Franz Kafka
:::
Quote, Unquote
Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves.
~ Iain Banks
:::
Quote, Unquote
If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
:::
Quote, Unquote
Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
― Walter Benjamin
:::
Quote, Unquote
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
:::