"People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#People Quotes #African American Quotes #Credit Quotes

“In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.”
“Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.”
“What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?”
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”

Source : Molly Ringwald (2012). “When It Happens to You”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.”
“Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.”
“I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.”
“In the arts there are many right answers.”

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