"Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading."

-- Elihu Root

#Animal Quotes #Men Quotes #Aggravation Quotes

“I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.”
“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”
“For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.”
“See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!”
“Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.”
“For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.”
“Look at life with the eyes of a child.”
“I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school”

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