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There's a lot of winking and nodding here. This is his way of capturing the middle ground.


Joseph Alpher

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JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER