"Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian."

-- Jude Wanniski

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Roots Quotes

“For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.”
“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.”

Source : Helen Schucman (2009). “A Course in Miracles”, p.418, Course in Miracles Society
“Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread”
“It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.”
“The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.”
“Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?”

Source : Lee Maracle (2017). “Ravensong—A Novel”, p.61, Canadian Scholars’ Press
“I think we respond well when we do something well.”
“It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first”

Source : Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

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