"Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption."

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Larkin Grimm

#Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes #Bankers Quotes

“It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.”
“What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?”
“I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.”
“When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.”

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“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

Source : "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.
“There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.”
“I personally would rather be a partygoer than a party-thrower.”

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“Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.”

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