"Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby."

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Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 162), 1948.

I. L. Peretz

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.”

Source : Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion
“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”
“The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.”
“People are what are scary...people.”
“Great souls endure in silence.”

Source : Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.295
“A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.”
“I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.”
“There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.”

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