"Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level."

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Source : Margaret Landon (1945). “Anna and the King of Siam”

Margaret Landon

#Selfishness Quotes #Levels Quotes #Selflessness Quotes

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
“I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed”
“The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.”
“If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.”
“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2004). “Hot Target”, p.53, Ballantine Books
“The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.”
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”

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