"What people don't understand, they laugh at."

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Geraldine McCaughrean

#People Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar â€“ the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.”
“Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.”
“But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.”
“When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right back into the biggest part of this whole equation, consumption. This drags GDP down as well.”
“Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.”
“Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can,”

Source : "GOP Congressman 'Offended' By Moral Questions Obama Addressed In Counterterror Speech" by Ben Armbruster, thinkprogress.org. May 26, 2013.
“In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.”
“I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.”

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