"Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism."

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Source : "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.

Cintra Wilson

#Fun Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ghetto Quotes

“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
“Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.”
“The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press
“The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”
“How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!”
“Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.”
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
“Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.”

Source : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.136, Penguin

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