"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Country Quotes #Simple Quotes #Leprosy Quotes

“Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”
“I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Sampler”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.”
“Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.”
“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
“Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.”
“The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naÃ¯ve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.”
“It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.”

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