"Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know."

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Karl Kraus

#People Quotes #Enough Quotes #Greetings Quotes

“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”
“I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.103, Canongate Books
“I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.”
“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.”
“I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.”

Source : "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.”

Source : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.
“Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

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