Fight Back Clean Quotes

#1. There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.

George Soros

#2. In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind

Michael Foot

#3. Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.

Guy De Maupassant

#4. Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin.

John Irving

#6. The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

Walter Gilbert

#7. Fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while

Don Marquis

#8. Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime of homes. [p. 58]

Sylvia Boorstein