"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."

-- David Ricardo

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“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Ellen L. Arnold (2000). “Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko”, p.27, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.”

Source : "And the Winner Is: 'The Great Beauty' for Best Foreign Language Film". Interview with Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2014.
“Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.”
“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.25, Library of Alexandria
“When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.”
“You are so very wonderful and fill our lives with cheer, today's a celebration for a daughter-in-law so dear. Happy Birthday”
“A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement,”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 01, 2017
“Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.”

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