"Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family"

-- Andy Zaltzman

#Jobs Quotes #Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.”
“Letâ€™s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.”
“One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.”
“Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.12, A&C Black
“Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.”
“Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.”
“No one ever swung too slowly.”
“Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.195, Transaction Publishers

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