"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Recycling Quotes #Social Quotes #Boxes Quotes

“I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.”

Source : "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.
“In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384
“When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.”
“Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”

Source : Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated
“It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.”
“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.”
“The world isn't as bad as you think.”

Source : "Fictional character: Celty Sturluson". "Durarara!!", January 8, 2010 – June 25, 2010.

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