Quotes
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George Graham Vest

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains."

Source : "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

George Graham Vest

#Dog Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.”
“Anyone taking ***** is thinking about taking ***** more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.”
“I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.”
“I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.”
“I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe hoping to finish 'crappy year' with success in Berlin" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.
“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.”
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

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