"It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start"

-- Ron Rash

#Baby Quotes #Tears Quotes #World Quotes

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”
“We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
“He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”
“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”
“Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.”

Source : Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.
“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

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