"The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#America Quotes #Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.”
“I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.”
“As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraÃ®nera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.”
“From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.”

Source : Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”
“Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.”
“Business is the real test of the moral life.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 02, 2017

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