Mauss The Gift Quotes & Sayings

Soft citizens of the American democracy learned to kick a man below the belt and make the bastard scream. — Kurt Vonnegut

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. — Joseph Story

New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York. — William Dean Howells

They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. — Emily St. John Mandel

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes. — B.W. Powe

Because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself. — Stephen King

Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do. — Donna Lynn Hope

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. — Anatole Broyard

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles. — Pete Wentz

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place. — Diana Wynne Jones

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. — Elizabeth Warren

World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures fulfil their Destinies. — Oswald Spengler

I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages. — Elena Ferrante

Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supplying agency to our intentions. The innate capacity for consciousness and directed free will plays a linchpin role in making human curiosity a viable concept. We would lack an ability to learn without an inquisitive mind and the ability to act. A premeditated act of human free will enables us to apply what we learn and make calculated adjustments when our plans need alteration. Human beings' cognitive processes and a liberal range of free will allows us to study the past for learning rubrics to employ in the present and cogitate upon a future course of action. — Kilroy J. Oldster