"I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me."

-- Al Capone

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“Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!”
“The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things”
“State is the nation socially organized.”

Source : "Speeches" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Coimbra Editora, Volume 4, (p. 181), 1935.
“We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.”
“Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.”
“Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.”

Source : Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.20, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley
“I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.”
“The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.”

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