"Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates."

-- Greg Walden

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“You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.”

Source : Gertrude Stein (2015). “Three Lives”, Xist Publishing
“The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.”

Source : "The Biscuit Torturers of the U.S. Military". www.dailykos.com. July 06, 2005.
“Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.”
“Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
“Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.”
“I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.”
“Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.”

Source : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358

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