"He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue."

-- Horace

#Arms Quotes #Study Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”
“It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.”
“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

Source : "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.
“I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.”
“I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.”
“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.38
“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.”
“I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”

Source : Playboy Magazine, April 2001.

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