"As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Voting Quotes #Needs Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.”
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”
“In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.”
“I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?”
“I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press
“The record business. Itâ€™s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they wonâ€™t take care of you.”

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