"If you are a Steve Earle and you're up on a platform and there are people out there listening to you, say something to them. Tell them something valuable. Tell them something they need to know. It doesn't have to be dictatorial, it just has to be informative."

-- Thea Gilmore

#People Quotes #Listening Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.276, The Floating Press
“The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.”
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
“Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?”

Source : Interview with Andy Butler, www.designboom.com. July 10, 2013.
“Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.”
“Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.”
“My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.”
“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.”

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