"Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about."

-- Son House

“Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.”
“Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”
“Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.”

Source : Gordon G. Chang (2001). “The coming collapse of China”, Random House Business Books
“The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.”
“The road to creativity passes...”
“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
“Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.”

Source : Quoted byAdrian Mitchell inThe Guardian,1 Feb1972.

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