"A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism."

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Source : Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

Machado de Assis

#Fighting Quotes #Sea Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
“Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.”

Source : "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.
“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
“I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.”
“All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.”
“Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.”
“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”

Source : "Aeneis (Aeneid)". Poem by Virgil (Book II, line 130), 29-19 BC.

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