"Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay."

-- Louis Kronenberger

#Effort Quotes #Age Quotes #Bling Quotes

“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
“The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.”
“Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes.”
“Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.”
“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.”
“The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself”
“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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