Boondoggling Quotes

#1. The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

Paul Goodman

#2. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#3. A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

James Keller

#4. I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

Laurene Powell Jobs

#5. I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Jens Lekman

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Andrew K. Dennis

#7. Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Wilma Mankiller

#8. Muhammad's example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly,

Reza Aslan

#9. We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

Cynthia Breazeal

#10. Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

Ruben Hinojosa

#11. Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Joaquin Miller

#12. I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Tina Yothers

#13. I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

Bill Kurtis

#14. year-old girl. It was more than a habit, for a habit could be broken. This was a deep disposition, the outline experience had stencilled on character. It was not

Ian McEwan