"Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

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Source : John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

John Ralston Saul

#Expression Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.247
“There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.”
“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

Source : Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 1995.
“Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?”
“I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”
“No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.”
“Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.”

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