"The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off."

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Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Peter Maurin

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.”
“Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won”
“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
“I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.”
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.”

Source : Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447
“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.”
“I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.”
“What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.”

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