"We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom"

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Source : "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

Harry Leslie Smith

#Money Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.”
“I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.”

Source : Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.
“After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.”
“I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.”
“Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.”
“Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.”
“Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.”

Source : "'Once Upon a Time's' Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison Explain Its Version of 'Ever After'" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2011.
“They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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