We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.


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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take ...
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
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To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the...
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Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness w...
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single son...
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A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the sam...
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Genius is intensity
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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
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All happiness depends on courage and work
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Economized love is never real love
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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the ...
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Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is n...
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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They must have the defects of their qualities.
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In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soa...
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman&...
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
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They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...
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To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devo...
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist...
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