"If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable."

-- Georges Courteline

#Greed Quotes #Unbearable Quotes #Permit Quotes

“The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.”
“Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.”
“Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”
“I love the Internet, and the Internet loves me back. Why else would it offer me so much sex?”
“Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.”
“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
“First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.”
“I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.197, Transaction Publishers

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