"The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing."

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Source : "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham, content.time.com. June 21, 2012.

Jon Meacham

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“Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press
“In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.”
“Divine Consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us.”
“When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.”
“I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.”
“... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.”
“But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.”
“Wickedness is nourished by lust.”

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