"We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges."

-- Abram L. Sachar

#Privilege Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“There's more movies now than ever, and competition for the entertainment dollar. These movies aren't recouping the way they used to. These little producers used to make something for a million, and get on a roll. One would finance the next. They crap out eventually, but then they go start a new company. But these guys just aren't getting to first base.”

Source : Source: www.aboutfilm.com
“In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house -- I should run into it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.”
“[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.”
“I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'”
“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.”
“As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).”
“We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.”

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