Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUSorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.
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I’ve tried staying where its safe far away from the deep end. Only to find out people still drown in the shallow end.
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The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE -
It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn’t elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months.
BILL AYERS -
I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.
LYSA TERKEURST -
I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it’s food.
BECKY G -
The loss of innocence is inevitable bitterness does not have to be.
HOLLY DUXBURY -
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE -
This heart. It’s broke. I don’t want it anymore.
TONY COBLE -
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
ICE CUBE -
The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.
ALAIN LEROY LOCKE -
When you least expect it, death creeps in and reminds you of life.
CELINE ZABAD -
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO -
It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field.
KEVIN DURANT -
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS -
I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I’d given my heart away to someone who didn’t want it. Even knowing that, I didn’t regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.
ABBI GLINES -
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.
AHMED BEN BELLA -
Every book that you read has taught you a lesson, a lesson you will cherish forever.
LACEY SMITH -
Self-loathing doesn’t keep me from being happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t struggle.
MEGAN FOX -
I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMY -
Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.
BARRY S. STRAUSS -
I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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Data can actually make us more human.
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