"It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth."

-- Thorstein Veblen

#Wealth Quotes #Scales Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.”
“I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.”
“Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.”
“If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.182
“A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.”
“Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.”
“One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.”
“Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.”

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