"I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic."

-- Scott Raab

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.”
“The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”
“Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.”
“I wonâ€™t react to something just because Iâ€™m supposed to, because Iâ€™m an African-American”
“Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.”
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.”
“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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