"This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh."

-- Sholom Aleichem

#Mean Quotes #Laughing Quotes #World Quotes

“There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.”
“I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.”
“For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (1983). “Karma and rebirth”, Routledge
“If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!”

Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169
“Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.”
“Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“None but the brave deserve the fair.”
“If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.”

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