"Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing."

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Source : Source: www.democracynow.org

David Sirota

#President Quotes #Pushing Quotes #Republican Quotes

“If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55
“Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.”
“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2015). “Green Earth”, p.673, Del Rey
“Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.”
“Be gentle with the young.”
“Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.”
“A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.”

Source : Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books
“Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.”

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