Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. - Irving Kristol - Quotesmemo.com

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It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.

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Irving Kristol

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

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It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

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As a result of the efforts of Hayek. . and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

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. . the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

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Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. . . People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

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A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

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If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

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Martin Amis

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It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.

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God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

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To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

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Edwidge Danticat

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That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

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