"Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . ."

-- George Washington

#Government Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Substance Quotes

“Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.”
“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”
“If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.”
“I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.”
“Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer”
“Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza”
“What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”
“We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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