"According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules."

-- Jeff Miller

#School Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?”
“You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.”
“There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.”
“Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.”
“The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press
“The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.”
“The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.”

Source : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company

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