"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."

-- Mother Jones

#Believe Quotes #Flags Quotes #Movement Quotes

“The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.”
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”

Source : Harvey Mackay (1999). “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top”
“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.”

Source : "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.
“I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.”
“Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.”
“So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.”
“If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.”
“There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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