"The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth."

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William Cobbett

#Desire Quotes #Riches Quotes #May Quotes

“The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.”
“Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.”
“Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.”
“She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.”
“And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.”
“"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.”
“Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!”

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