“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.” IfsThinkingLittlesHas BeensBitsLessonsBlessingLittle BitDemocraticMythSavedSocialismWhat IfSovietDisguiseInterventionPessimistFloweringVery SadBlessings In DisguiseDemocratic Socialism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.” MenHeartLittlesMightDesireWealthLordSawsGreatnessBlessingIncreaseHumbleConsumerismBusiness SuccessCravingOverconsumptionHumble Man Book:journal Source: journal
“To receive a 10-point ride is a blessing in itself, but to have it honored by giving to those who could use a little support to accomplish the things they want to do in life is a bigger blessing. The school is something I believe hugely in. They provide a special place for kids to understand things that many people avoid or never learn to deal with their whole lives.” PeopleWantGivingBelieveLittlesWholeUseKidsSchoolLife IsI BelieveDealsSupportSpecialBlessingBiggerAccomplishWhole LifeHonoredSpecial Places Author:Kelly Slater
“Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?” KnowsMenWellsLittlesSeemsFallRaceBlessingMortals Book:Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments Source: Sophocles Tragedies and Fragments
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)