"In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point."

-- Edwin Newman

#Rivers Quotes #America Quotes

“Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.”
“In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.”
“Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.”
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235
“It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.”
“If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.”
“If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.”

Source : Stuart Briscoe (2010). “What Works When Life Doesn't”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.”

Source : "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

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