"We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur"

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Nicholas D. Kristof

#Might Quotes #Matter Quotes #Tunes Quotes

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.”
“I was actually a Cowboys fan.”
“Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather ...”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”

Source : "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.
“Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.”

Source : Song: Basketball, Album: Ego Trip
“Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
“To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.”

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