"Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs."

-- John Podhoretz

#Party Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.”
“You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.”
“I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.”
“All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.”
“The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.”
“Whatâ€™s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isnâ€™t any difference between people â€”well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?”
“A thick skin is a gift from God.”
“The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.65, World Wisdom, Inc

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