"The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

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“But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?”
“We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?”

Source : 'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24
“In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.”
“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”
“I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious and responsibly sourced beans.”
“It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.”
“My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.”

Source : "French Montana wants a pet monkey" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. October 25, 2013.
“I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.”

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