"The bishops eat from my hand."

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Source : Characteristic remark, recalled in Conrad Black Duplessis (1977).

Maurice Duplessis

#Hands Quotes #Bishops Quotes

“All things come to him who waits - even justice.”
“Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.”
“free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.”
“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 162), 1948.
“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.”
“It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.”
“The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.”

Source : "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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