"I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Alan Abel

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“You don't like presents or anything new, you don't even need a card. You prefer your appreciations to be something of helpfulness, for someone else's regard.”
“I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.”

Source : "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.
“It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.”
“I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.”
“Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”

Source : Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.39, Shambhala Publications
“If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.”
“Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if youâ€™re not ready for judgment.”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

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