"A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society."

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Russell Kirk

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“Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.”
“To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.”
“Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.”
“I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.”

Source : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.
“The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.”

Source : "How Modern Finance Promises to Break the Cycle of Recidivism". "PBS NewsHour" with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 14, 2013.
“The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.”
“Dawes kind of, on purpose, were like, "Let's realize that we're going to make less money, but let's try to get as many fans from as many kind of demographics as we can." And I feel really lucky that our music exists in this world where we can open for artists like M. Ward or Bright Eyes, and then on the same side of that open for Alison Krauss.”

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