"Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Different Quotes #Originality Quotes #Traps Quotes

“The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.”
“No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.”
“There's no night without stars.”
“if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed.”
“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.”
“The imperative is to define what is right and do it.”

Source : Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B
“Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.”
“INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.”

Source : "INXS Makes It Official: Band's Touring Days Are Over" by Pip Bulbeck, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2012.

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