"The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy."

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Horace

#Cheerful Quotes #Melancholy Quotes #Dislike Quotes

“I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.”
“We, the Jews, not only have degenerated and are located at the end of the path, we spoiled the blood of all the peoples of Europe ... Jews are descended from a mixture of waste of all races.”
“For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.”

Source : "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally ‘Better’" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.
“With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.”
“The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.”
“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”
“For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.”
“A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.39, Revell

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