"We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat."

-- Phil Gramm

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.”
“The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.”
“I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.”
“The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”
“The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.”

Source : "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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