"there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well."

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Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

Rolf Potts

#Insanity Quotes #World Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Humor is wit and love.”
“He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2005). “Darkhenge”, Bodley Head Childrens
“The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.”
“Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist for a moment, but also that the individual isn't always clear they are doing so.”
“Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.”

Source : "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.
“A meow massages the heart.”
“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”
“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”

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