"To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface."

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Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

Thomas Malthus

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“I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.”
“When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!”

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“There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.”
“We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.”
“All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.”
“Equipment makes my job easier, but it doesn't affect my style.”
“All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.”
“Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.”

Source : HERMAN WOUK (1955). “MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR”

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