"democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith."

-- Jane Addams

#Democracy Quotes #Tests Quotes #Wells Quotes

“What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.”
“Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.”
“There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.”

Source : "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.
“Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.”
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
“He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.”
“I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.”

Source : Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult
“I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons...”

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