"Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element."

-- Jeremy Collier

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“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”
“I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”
“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”
“Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.”
“we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”

Source : Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”
“A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.”
“O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!”

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