"Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty."

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Juvenal

#Ambitious Quotes #Poverty Quotes #States Quotes

“A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.”
“Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.”

Source : "Eating Diaries: Carly Cushnie, Dylan Lauren & Elizabeth Cutler". Interview with Jessica Prince Erlich, Slide 7, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 05, 2013.
“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
“My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause right now people are not responding to what they don't know. Most people are just afraid to think on their own.”
“It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.”
“[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.”
“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”
“If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.”

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