"The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books."

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Lois Lowry

#Art Quotes #Pain Quotes #Book Quotes

“If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.”

Source : "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.
“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”

Source : "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.”
“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?”
“Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God”
“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesnâ€™t marry an idiot.”
“All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.”

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