"Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off……" — B. C. Forbes

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• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes
• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and… — Mark Twain
• Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a… — Blaise Cendrars
• Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic… — Bill Keller
• The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin
• Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks… — Wilder Penfield
• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water.… — Margaret Visser
• Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Feltham
• A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. — Ming-Dao Deng
• That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. — Eric Hoffer
• Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after… — Theodor Adorno
• We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that… — Ai Weiwei

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