"People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion."

-- Sarah Churchwell

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Entitlement Quotes

“Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.”
“The only wealth you keep is the wealth that you give away.”
“Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.”
“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”
“The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.”
“There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by institutional economists, lawyers, and administrators interested in formulating and implementing public policy. It has been the tendency of these groups to work almost as though the other did not exist.”

Source : Martin Shubik, Richard Levitan (1980). “Market structure and behavior”, Harvard Univ Pr
“George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.”
“Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.”

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