"I try to deal with my serious reading before work."

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Donna Shalala

#Reading Quotes #Trying Quotes #Serious Quotes

“By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!”
“Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.”
“Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.”
“Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.”
“Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control”
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”

Source : "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.
“The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent”
“Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'”

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