"Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of."

-- Elbert Hubbard

#Pride Quotes #Men Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck â€” and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.”

Source : "Don’t Eat Fortune’s Cookie". Princeton University’s 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks, www.princeton.edu. June 3, 2012.
“I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.”
“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
“There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.”
“I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.”
“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”
“I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.”

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