"To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Meaningful Quotes #America Quotes #Community Quotes

“Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.”

Source : Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”
“The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc Antony, whom he thought was irreparably dismantling the Republic of Rome. Those speeches are powerful because they're not only really pointed but they're thrillingly beautiful - and that's precisely what made them dangerous: the fact that people wanted to read them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!”

Source : "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.
“In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.”
“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.”
“When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.”
“If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually theyâ€™ll be able to run a township, and a county.”
“Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.47, Penguin

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