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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ↗

— James Stephens

#carelessly #find #her #man #singing

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance. ↗

— E.F. Schumacher

#econometrics #economics #beauty

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #cultural #freedom #order #promoting

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. ↗

— Will Durant

#free #law #man #recognized #subject

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#man #more #once #only #skinned

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah. ↗

— James Durbin

#called #life #my life #song #stop

Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#because #comin #down #goin #gonna

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i #loved #men #most

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness