"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own"

-- Tryon Edwards

#Sympathy Quotes #Grief Quotes #Giving Quotes

“He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.”
“One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.”
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.”

Source : Interview with Baird Jones in New York Post, December 11, 1999.
“Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to ***** over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.”

Source : Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.181, Duke University Press
“Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.”
“Don't you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that's phenomenal, something that's great, something that's undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?”
“I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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