"The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside."

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Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

Brooks Atkinson

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.”
“If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.”
“For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .”
“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.”
“You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.”
“What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.”
“Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.”

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