"The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Cutting Quotes #Membership Quotes #Fellowship Quotes

“I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.”
“Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.”
“If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.”
“Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.”
“Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?”
“I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.”
“No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.”
“The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.”

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