"In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Gar Alperovitz

#Cities Quotes #America Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
“I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.”
“Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.”
“I have to reign in my personality a little bit. Sometimes you want to go more colorful, but that's not my job on the [Grimm] show. My job is to be the center of the show, and the further you move out the more it can get wild.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.”
“Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.”
“I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had the worst heartbreak of my life with my first girlfriend. It inspired great music.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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