You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is you get fat.
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
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