"We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly."

-- John Battelle

#Play Quotes #Roles Quotes #Corporations Quotes

“Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.”
“I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.”
“There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.”
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.”
“Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .”
“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”

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