Quotes - John Blumenthal (goodreadscomjohn_blumenthal) (Santa Monica, CA) Showing 1-10 of 10

#1

“Boy meets girl. So what?”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: humor, romance

#2

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#3

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23108 likes

#4

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, reading, speed-reading, tolstoy

448 likes

#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51733 likes

#7

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: books, change, civilization, create, destroy, power

95 likes

#8

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

tags: destroy, philosophy, powerful, protect, resourceful

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#9

“Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: human, individuality, natrual, power, prevail, struggle

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#10

“Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don’t relate with each other because people in those societies think, act and reacts with their knowledge that create different ways of life and different recognition of humans.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: act, different, human, kind, knowledge, lead, react, recognition, society, think

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