"To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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“Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.”
“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.”
“I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.”
“Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”
“Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.”

Source : "The Tender Bar: A Memoir". Book by J. R. Moehringer, 2005.
“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”
“It boggles my mind that the same people who cry â€˜foulâ€™ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people â€“ elders, the poor, the disabled â€“ who are least able to bear them.”

Source : Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.213, John Wiley & Sons
“Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.”

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