"Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth? Why be prudent when the state insures your bank deposits, replaces your flooded-out house, buys all the wheat you can grow? ... Why be diligent when half of your earnings are taken from you and given to the idle?"

-- David Frum

#Taken Quotes #House Quotes #Age Quotes

“I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.”
“I don't like to sit and count my money and be a "happy entrepreneur".”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

Source : Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”
“I love my fans to pieces. They're with me. They get it, you know? They get what I'm saying.”
“The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.”
“My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.”
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
“The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue”

Source : Romare Bearden (1989). “Romare Bearden, 1911-1988: A Memorial Exhibition”, Aca Galleries

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