“…it seems to be a law of the human constitution that those that deserve shall not have, and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having. It is a sufficiently crazy arrangement, it seems to me.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 245
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
As quoted in Borges Verbal (1999) edited by Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, p. 156
5. U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 180
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
No. 388
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Context: 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. We're aware of sexual harassment, and of course, there are very few companies that have daycare centers, which seems to me would be the most humane, positive thing to do for a worker. The worker would be more loyal, they'd be more productive. It's so crazy not to do the human thing. It seems to me to be much more profitable to do the human thing. It just makes a better society.
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tie-me-up-tie-me-down-1990 of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (25 May 1990)
Reviews, Two-and-a-half star reviews
2004-01-01
Iris sees red.(Iris Kyle finishes second at Ms. Olympia)(Brief Article)
Flex
Internet
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Sourced quotes, 2004
Variant: He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Source: Mein Kampf
“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)