"How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us."

-- Tracy Kidder

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?”
“Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.”
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.”
“As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, â€” we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.”
“No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.”

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