"Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd."

-- Kevin Drum

#Letting Go Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Guy Quotes

“I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.”
“Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.”
“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”
“All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.”
“I get to learn and teach something new everyday.”
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”
“We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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