"Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain."

-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Pain Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Feel Better Quotes

“Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.”
“History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.”

Source : "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.
“We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.”
“A curious mind does not say to consumers "What do you want?" A curious mind understands context, understands behavior, understands spending and spending patterns - the accumulation of a day's purchases, or spending over a week or a year. A curious mind asks the questions that open up the consumer to talk about her latent dissatisfactions, hopes, wishes, and dreams.”
“Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change the flag and keep everything as it was.' Then there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let's change the property laws.' It's always a critical moment.”
“I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.”
“Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.”
“'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.”

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