"He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy."

-- Ken Kesey

#Life Quotes #Running Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.”
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source : Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.
“Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.”
“Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.”
“Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.”

Source : "Detroit Free Press Wins Pulitzer Prize". Candice S. Miller, "Congressional Record", Volume 155, Number 59, United States House of Representatives, Page H4588, www.gpo.gov. April 22, 2009.
“I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.”
“One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.”

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