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Felix Adler Quotes

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: german
Birth: August 13, 1851 - April 24, 1933

Topics

Life World Fierce Desire Human Rare

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Difficult Head Anything Modern Get

William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.

Me Spark Place Why Admire Possible

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

History Job Thinking Better Meetings

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Power Money Looking You Find Will

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Arrogance Tolerance Little Very

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Vision Politics Succeed World Better

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Christian Lous Lange

Growth Opportunity World Labor Means

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

Father Man Me Team Down Village

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

Vision Control Think American You

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Paul Westerberg

Fun Enjoy Mean Always Turn Up

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Life Good Live School People You

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

Technology Game Design Games Matter

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