"All systems require myths for their longevity."

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Nikki Giovanni

#Longevity Quotes #Myth Quotes

“The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.”
“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.”
“I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.”
“Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.”

Source : "Transcript: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.
“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
“Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.”

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