"I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#Lending Quotes #Begging Quotes #Borrowing Quotes

“I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.”
“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.”
“Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.175, A&C Black
“I want a society free of human trafficking”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
“Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.”
“Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.”
“The toughest individual I've ever met in my life is Jim Kelly, No. 12.”

Source : Andre Reed's speech at Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, www.syracuse.com. August 2, 2014.

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