"For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?"

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John Mellencamp

#Ivory Quotes #Racism Quotes #Towers Quotes

“Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.”
“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”
“What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?”

Source : "Rep. Weiner Says Medicare Is Holding Down Costs Better Than Private Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2009.
“The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.”
“Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.”
“The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.”
“Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283”
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”

Source : C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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