"gardening is a madness and a rapture."

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Source : Faith Sullivan (2012). “What a Woman Must Do: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

Faith Sullivan

#Gardening Quotes #Madness Quotes #Rapture Quotes

“You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.”

Source : Hill Harper (2011). “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”, p.41, Penguin
“When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?”
“This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.”

Source : "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.
“More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.”

Source : Jonathan Daniels (1972). “Frontier on the Potomac”
“The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.”
“Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.”
“A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.”

Source : Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”
“Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.”

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