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“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”

World Needs Heart Mean Loses Break Failing This World Offers Succeed Accounts Memoir Intimacy Gossip Truthful Testimony Break Your Heart

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.”

Sometimes Seems Given Existence Failing Perspective Activity Accounts Finals Traditional Transcendence Transcendent Viewpoints Transcendental Transcending

Author:Raymond Geuss

“We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.”

Ifs Humans Able Energy Quality Failing Happened Terrible Accounts Deny Criminals Characteristics Terrible Things

Author:Volker Ullrich

“The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.”

Giving Should Failing Position Fairs Tests Accounts Financial Accurate

Author:Kevin Warsh

“That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.”

Said Seems Failing Subjects Accounts Incredibles Statistics Cents

Book:The Empire of Business

Source: The Empire of Business

“It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.”

Men Common Failing Fairs Accounts Weather Tempest

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.”

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.”

States Accepting Support Failing Military Accounts Police Premises Inevitability Police State Conscription Police Power

Author:Murray Bookchin

“In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.”

People World Way Wells May Real States Reason Law United United States Failing Politician Economics Accounts Real World Incentives Politics And Economics

Book:SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Source: SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

“Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”

Ifs Men Trying Loses Failing Ambition Pages Ordinary Deserve Accounts Fortune Satisfaction Observation Admiration Looking Back Aspire Mediocre Consolation Rise Above

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”

Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution

“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”

Ifs Men Action Suffering Lost Loses Mistake Quality Courage Four Failing Conditions Regret Fool Battle Respect Accounts Absolutes Defeat Wide Awake Fulfilled Assurance Pitiful Wide Awake

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.”

“[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.”

World Should Made Light Age Science Dark Failing Accounts Britain Abyss Dark Ages Sinister

Author:Winston Churchill