"I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs."

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Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

Vasily Grossman

#Beautiful Quotes #Dog Quotes #Cat Quotes

“Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.”

Source : Nick Murray (1999). “Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds”, Nick Murray Company
“As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.”
“Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.”
“The highest condition of art is artlessness.”
“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.10, Knopf
“If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.”
“A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.”
“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”

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