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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.


Italo Calvino


#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.


Edward Felten


#big #big thing #classrooms #dreaming #founders

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.


Confucius


#easiest #experience #first #gaining #highest

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.


Kent Conrad


#buying #clear #discussions #dominance #european

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.


Sheryl Crow


#better #changes #fact #gaining #get

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.


Winston Graham


#climbing #comma #ever #find #gaining

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.


Ernest Istook


#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.


Herman Kahn


#any #billions #conviction #convinced #deprived

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!


Anthony Liccione


#content #drunkeness #eat #food-for-thought #fools

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.


Thorstein Veblen


#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining






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