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William Batchelder Greene

"What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence."

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6

William Batchelder Greene

#Self Quotes #Hands Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Your world is as big as you make it.”
“My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.”
“When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.”
“Truths are a result of knowing yourself.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.”
“If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.”
“I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why canâ€™t people be happier together?”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.”

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