"You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting."

-- Karen Bass

#Office Quotes #Community Quotes #Standing Out Quotes

“A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.”
“Kindness is produced by kindness.”
“Artists make worlds for people to walk through.”

Source : "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.
“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“What matters most in a childâ€™s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”

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