"The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work."

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Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.

Tommy Douglas

#Democracy Quotes #Way Quotes

“A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.”
“World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, p.117, Faber & Faber
“â€”I don't want to lose you â€”Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
“A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.”
“When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.
“It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.440, Simon and Schuster
“I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.”

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