"Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich."

-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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“It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.”

Source : Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet
“I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?”
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
“It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.”
“Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...”
“I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.”
“When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?”
“I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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