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Quote of the day: ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISM

December 6, 2012

ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISM

Profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster. It’s us, human beings, we the people, who create the society we want, not profit. It is increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose – or of a moral language – within government, media, or business, could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and for freedom….Independence from regulation and the freedom we need to innovate and grow is only democratically viable when we accept that we have a responsibility to each other and not just to our bottom line. Profit must be our servant, not our master.

— Elizabeth Murdoch

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Quote of the day: LOVE

December 5, 2012

LOVE

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Quote of the day: STELLA

December 2, 2012

STELLA

Stella Adler was a grande dame of the theater. I never met anyone remotely like her. With her mid-Atlantic accent, she was once mistaken by a London shopkeeper for English. “No,” she replied, “just affected.” And at a New York cocktail party, she once made a sweeping entrance that brought a hush to the room. A little girl turned to her mother and asked in an awed whisper, “Mommy, is that God?” I understand how the little girl felt. All Stella’s students would.

— Peter Bogdanovich, reviewing Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights in the New York Times
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Quote of the day: PSYCHOTHERAPY

November 23, 2012

PSYCHOTHERAPY

My mind drifts to a conversation I had years ago with a clinical supervisor who said, “Ninety percent of this work is having the guts to show up and look at what’s happening without changing the subject.”

— J. Scott Janssen

Quote of the day: AGING

November 11, 2012

AGING

Extreme old age is as lonely as God. It has no one to talk to.

— Violet Trefusis, Don’t Look Round