Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others.
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
