"My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world."

-- Suzanne Vega

#World Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
“Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.”
“History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...”
“Debate doesnâ€™t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. Thatâ€™s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”
“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.”

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