#trial

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#trials

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#action #clearer #ebb #error #fear

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #anvil #god #higher #shaping

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#fortune #good #good fortune #moment #more

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#let us #made #see #soil #teach

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ahead #comes #decided #fully #getting