"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."

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Jonathan Swift

#Pride Quotes #Proud Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.”
“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”
“The guys in New York donâ€™t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.”
“From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.”
“[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.”
“This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.”
“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

Source : "Louise Leakey: Where Did Human Beings Originate?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 24, 2014.
“Even pleasure cloys without variety.”

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