"Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy."

-- Bill Moyers

#Heart Quotes #Voting Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.”
“Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (1993). “Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border”, Anchor
“I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.”

Source : Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. November 19, 2013.
“We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.”
“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.”
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I don't think God's through with me,”

Source : "'This Week' Transcript: Stephanie Cutter and Eric Fehrnstrom". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.
“Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013

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