"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."

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Elias Canetti

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“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.”
“Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.”

Source : Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”
“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”
“He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.149, Penguin
“They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.”
“You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.”
“When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.”

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