"Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death."

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Source : Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (centenary edition), revised by Ivor Evans (1975)

Samuel Garth

#Gentleman Quotes #Natural Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENTâ€¦GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED â€¦THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE”

Source : "Beyond Greed and Scarcity". Interview with Sarah van Gelder (Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures), www.lietaer.com. Spring 1997.
“The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.”
“When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.”
“I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.”
“Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.”
“In English every word can be verbed.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!”

Source : Source: www.artzip.org

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