"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up."

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Dorothy Day

#Giving Up Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Best Things In Life Quotes

“Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.”
“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”
“When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.”
“I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.”
“I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.”
“My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.”

Source : Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 May 1783)
“My mother says I have boring percussion.”
“Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.”

Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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