"If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.”
“Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”
“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

Source : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”
“When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.”
“There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.”
“Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.”
“I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.”
“My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.”

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