"Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind."

-- Brigid Lowry

#Twenties Quotes #Towns Quotes #Miles Quotes

“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.”
“Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.”
“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press
“There is no room in baseball for a clown.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.”
“Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.”

Source : "Kelly Rutherford Says She's Broke From Custody Battle: Everything 'Spent Fighting for My Children'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. April 26, 2013.
“It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.”
“The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.”

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