"I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse."

-- Walter Annenberg

#Character Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Want Quotes

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.”
“It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.”
“Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws.”
“I will be the first black James Bond.”
“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”

Source : Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.75, Courier Corporation
“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks”

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