"So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?"

-- Victor Davis Hanson

#Race Quotes #Class Quotes #Notable Quotes

“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.”
“I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.”
“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.”

Source : "Film: Taslima Nasreen- One Woman Against Islam". www.journeyman.tv.
“Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.”
“I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.”
“It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.”

Source : "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.
“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”

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