"The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Duncan Green

#Sports Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.”
“Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing”
“Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.”

Source : Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books
“As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.”
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
“No person ever thought too much of Christ.”
“As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.”
“You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jul 12, 2014

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