"Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change."

-- Daniel N. Robinson

#Oil Quotes #Way Quotes #Overdue Quotes

“Dr. Kingâ€™s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. Thatâ€™s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
“I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.”
“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.”

Source : "In Your 60s". Book by Judy Valon, 2009.
“Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail”
“It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.”
“We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.”
“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”
“We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.”

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