Quotes
Authors
Thomas Bernhard

"Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death."

-- Thomas Bernhard

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“It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.”
“The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.”

Source : "Rick Santelli: 'Wake Up Young People'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 08, 2012.
“You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.”
“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...”
“I think that our reliance on dynasty is part of the problem here, because dynasty is inherently undemocratic. It's a very entitled thing to suggest that only one member of one family can save a country of 180 million people. It has to be about people who live in constituencies coming forward to represent them, not the sort of parachuted, elite class that comes in, wins elections and then leaves.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.”
“Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.”

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