"The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky."

-- Max Lerner

#Sky Quotes #Pie Quotes #People Quotes

“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.”
“Money counts more than you think.”
“The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.”
“Everything seems impossible until you see success.”
“Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.”
“To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.”
“A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.”
“Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.”

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