"what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty."

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Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

Mabel Osgood Wright

#Giving Quotes #Poverty Quotes #What Is Life Quotes

“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (1997). “The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation”, p.91, Jason Aronson, Incorporated
“Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant”
“Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.”
“The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.”
“A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 26, 2013
“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.”
“My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.”
“Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive”

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