"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? Itâ€™s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."

-- George Carlin

#Philosophy Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”

Source : Anne Perry (2001). “The Whitechapel Conspiracy”
“Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite â€“ hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.”
“Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.”
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin
“And the way Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes Not heard of for years at a time, did, Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise It was inside the house, And always getting narrower.”
“The 'Cercle et CarrÃ©' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter TorrÃ¨s-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et CarrÃ©'.”
“The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.”
“The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.”

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