"In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable."

-- Moliere

#Society Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.”
“I class myself as a manual laborer.”
“If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.”

Source : "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.
“I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.”
“I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.”
“You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.”
“We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.”
“My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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