"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Giving Quotes #Earth Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.”
“My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.”
“Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.”

Source : "Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry unwinds in Paris" by Talia Soghomonian, December 2002.
“Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.”
“Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.”
“If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.”
“The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.”
“Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.Â The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.”

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