"[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity."

-- Pascal Mercier

#Vanity Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Able Quotes

“It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.”
“pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!”
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”
“Chess is and will always be a game of chance.”
“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
“Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.”
“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.”

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