"The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal."

-- Marvin J. Ashton

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“The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.”

Source : 'Hansard' 15 May 1973, col. 1243 (on the Lonrho affair)
“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.”
“The greatest dishes are very simple.”
“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
“I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not whether you are. He is worrying about whether you think well of him, not whether he thinks well of you. The way to be yourself ... is to forget yourself.”
“The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”
“The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.”

Source : "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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