"I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF."

-- Danny Kaye

#Done Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Feels Quotes

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”
“The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.”
“Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.”

Source : Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock (1939). “A Centennial volume of the writings of Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock”
“It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.”
“If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.”
“Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.”
“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin
“All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.”

Source : "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. 1996.

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