Novi Novak Quotes & Sayings

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual. — Mencius

On a personal level, all of us have to come to terms with the fact that, sooner or later, we will die. And yet today no aspect of human existence, not even the ending of it, is immune to the hegemonic pretensions of neoclassical economic thought. Not only the intellectual poverty, but also the emotional poverty, of what it has to say about death give us little reason to believe that it will be able to face up to the fact of its own mortality. 4. — Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

The path of social reform like the path to heaven at any rate in India, is strewn with many difficulties. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics. — Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

There isn't an equation that can confirm something as self-evident (to us humans) as "muggy weather is uncomfortable" or "mothers are older than their daughters." There has been some progress made in translating this sort of information into mathematical logic, but to catalog the common sense of a four-year-old child would require hundreds of millions of lines of computer code. As Voltaire once said, "Common sense is not so common. — Michio Kaku

Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking. — Jill Clayburgh

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. — Blaise Pascal