"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house."

-- William Graham Sumner

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #House Quotes

“Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÃ‡ateur is identical with the Principe GÃ‡nÃ‡rateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.”
“Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
“I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.”
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
“We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.”
“I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.”
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they”

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