"Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build."

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Source : Gregor Von Rezzori (2012). “An Ermine in Czernopol”, p.18, New York Review of Books

Gregor von Rezzori

#People Quotes #Pay Quotes #Willing Quotes

“Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.”
“Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.”
“Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.”
“I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.”
“Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.”
“What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.”
“I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.”

Source : "Inflation fight goes on, Mr Jenkins tells left". The Times, January 24, 1976.

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