"Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's."

-- Lawrence Reed

#Compassion Quotes #Greed Quotes #Want Quotes

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'”

Source : "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.
“My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.”
“Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.”
“We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.”
“When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.”
“And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.”
“Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness. A country's most valuable resource is its people. So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.”

Source : "The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 2015.
“There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.”

Source : Diana Pharaoh Francis (2014). “Trace of Magic”, p.265, Bell Bridge Books

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