"What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Vanity Quotes #Needs Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.”
“Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.”
“Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.”

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“This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.”
“He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.”
“People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.”
“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.”
“I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.”

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