"I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar."

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Source : "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

Nalo Hopkinson

#Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sugar Quotes

“I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.”
“Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.”
“Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.”
“It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.”
“Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.”
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.”
“From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.”

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