"Absence of failure does not constitute success."

-- Chris Alexander

#Doe Quotes #Absence Quotes

“The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.”

Source : "Jobs Back At Political Forefront". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 8, 2012.
“Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.”
“I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.”
“He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.372, Scholastic Inc.
“I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.”
“Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends.”
“It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.”
“The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.”

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