"If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction."

-- Arthur Bloch

#Long Quotes #Progress Quotes #Enough Quotes

“We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.”
“Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.”
“Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.”

Source : "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.
“Luck cannot change birth.”
“I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.”
“If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.”
“PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.”

Source : Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press
“America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”

Source : "Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. March 24, 2008.

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