"Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work."

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Roelof Botha

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Use Quotes

“When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.”
“I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.”
“Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.”
“To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.”
“The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.”
“If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.”

Source : "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.
“I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.”

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