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“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

Thinking Way Two Intellectual Economics Absolutes Vices Nonsense Consideration Isolated Ecology Vice Versa Uncommon

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.”

Men Virtue Absolutes Vices Dullness Pomposity

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.”

Way Names Change Perfect Virtue Perfection Absolutes Ill Vices Imperfect Constancy

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.”

Ifs Knows Facts Absolutes Vices Certainty Bowls Soup Vice Versa Absolute Certainty

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.”

Men Virtue Absolutes Vices Extremes Vice And Virtue

Book:The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”

Thinking Government Political Choices Politics President Position Absolutes Independent Vices Loyalty Administration Vice President

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.”

Men May Important Reason Remember Ability Perspective Economics Absolutes Very Good Vices Nonsense Divorced Vice Versa Often Is Theorists Ability To See

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy