"Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous."

-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

#People Quotes #Thrifty Quotes #Generous Quotes

“The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.”
“The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.”
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.”
“On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
“The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.”

Source : "Supreme Court Expands Gay Rights In 2 Major Rulings". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. June 27, 2013.
“Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.”

Source : "Start-up Secrets: Tips from America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs". www.inc.com. September 28, 2009.
“Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”

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