#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes
“For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.”
“Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.”
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
“When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.”
“By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.”
“If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.”
“I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.”
“Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.348, Quirk Books
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