"We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether itâ€™s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasnâ€™t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?"

-- Noah Feldman

#Blow Quotes #Rights Quotes #Self Quotes

“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.”
“I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.”
“O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!”
“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

Source : Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956
“A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ***** of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.”

Source : Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited
“For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.”
“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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