"As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it."

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Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)". Book by Thucydides, 431 BC.

Pericles

#Real Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Needs Quotes

“They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.”
“New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.”

Source : "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.
“In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.”
“There are few secrets in football. So execute.”
“The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.”
“An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.”
“TheÂ common lawÂ is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.”
“It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.”

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