"When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level."

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Source : David Baldacci (2010). “True Blue”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

David Baldacci

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“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.”
“Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”
“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.”
“In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...”

Source : "Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings". Book by Han Fei, Columbia University Press, New York, transl. by Burton Watson, "The Eight Villanies", 1996.
“We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.”
“I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.”
“I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!”
“I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net

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