"A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department."

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Source : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

A. J. Liebling

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“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
“I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.”
“On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.”
“The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.”
“Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.”
“We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.”
“all girls are beautiful in their own way”
“Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.”

Source : "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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