"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary."

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Source : 1956 Cartoon caption.

Jules Feiffer

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.”
“Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.”
“I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.”
“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

Source : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin
“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.”
“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.”
“When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.”
“I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.”

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