"Men invented money Women invented mutual aid" — David Mitchell
"Men invented money Women invented mutual aid"
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't…
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed…
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into…
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is…
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More Aid Quotes
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one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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