"A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature."

-- Russell Baker

#One Day Quotes #Bars Quotes #Modern Life Quotes

“I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.”
“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.114, Morgan James Publishing
“A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.”
“Based on my own personal experience â€“ both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past â€“ rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”
“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
“All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.”

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