"Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Jobs Quotes #Fear Quotes #Government Quotes

“I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.”
“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”
“When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.”
“how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.”

Source : Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
“With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.”

Source : "Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Ice Skater, Pushes Seasonal Flu Shots" by Amanda Gardner, abcnews.go.com. August 29, 2009.
“One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.”
“I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.”
“I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.”

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