"Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

-- Trent Lott

#Government Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Relentless Forward Motion!”
“Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.”
“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
“The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.”
“The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.”
“I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.”
“I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.”
“All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.”

Source : John Henry Comstock (1897). “Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life”

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