"That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money."

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Source : "John Randolph of Roanoke". Book by William Cabell Bruce, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204, 1773 - 1833.

John Randolph of Roanoke

#People Quotes #Privilege Quotes #Spending Quotes

“You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?”
“To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.”
“I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.”
“Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is going on. So even being able to, like I said, share this gift with so many other people, it's definitely very therapeutic. It helps me just to focus and to be able to kind of get out those emotions that I'm having without reacting in such a way that's not acceptable in society.”
“We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.550, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.”
“There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.”
“If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.”

Source : "Morena Baccarin: I think everyone should get Anna haircuts!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. November 17, 2009.

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