"See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor."

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Source : FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from May 28, 2012

Aravind Adiga

#Dream Quotes #Weight Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1993). “M. Butterfly: With an Afterword by the Playwright”, p.54, Penguin
“I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.”
“Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.”
“Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1943). “The Menace of the Herd: Or Procrustes at Large”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby
“The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.”
“One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.”
“The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.”

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