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Links for jan 08 part II

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quotes

Quote #217


But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired

George Eliot, in Middlemarch

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Quote #216


it is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are for ever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge

George Eliot, in Middlemarch (chapter 42)

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Quote #215


But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope

George Eliot, in Middlemarch (chapter 51 )

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politics

capitalism and growth

Does anyone know if capitalism requires economic growth, and if so, why it does?

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Quote #214: I think you have to work real hard on that one.


It never goes away

Last line of The Two Jakes (reviewed here)

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Links for dec 07