"I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish."

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Edith Sitwell

#Eels Quotes #Pool Quotes #Catfish Quotes

“Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.”
“Great ideology creates great times.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.”
“The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.407
“I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
“I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.”
“Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.”
“I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.”

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