I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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In the common perception, there is something unseemly about young people getting rich. Getting rich is supposed to be the reward for hard work, preferably arriving when you are too old to enjoy it.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Liars are exhausting people.
~ Walter Kirn
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A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to. However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
~ Anton Chekhov
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There’s always a Mormon around when you don’t want one, trying your patience with unsolicited kindness.”
~ David Foster Wallace via The Atlantic
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The idea that a culture can preserve its originality by barricading itself against foreign influences is an old illusion that has always produced the opposite of the desired result. Isolation breeds sterility. It is the free circulation of cultural products and talents that allows each society to perpetuate and renew itself.
~ Jean-François Revel
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