"If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth."

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Source : "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 170), 1948.

Democritus

#Desire Quotes #Littles Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political systemâ€¦The central feature of the American constitutional systemâ€”the separation of powersâ€”exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”
“The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.”
“As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.”

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“Itâ€™s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is”
“I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.”
“If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.”
“I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob [Dylan] is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.”
“If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.”

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