"Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave."

-- John Dryden

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“There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.”
“If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.”
“Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.”

Source : "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.
“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”

Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.
“You develop faith by doing things that require faith.”

Source : John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

Source : 1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.
“We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.”
“When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.”

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