"[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated."

“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”

Source : Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

“Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.”

“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”

Source : Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.282, A&C Black

“I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com

“If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.”

Source : "Lara Logan: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2012.

“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”