"I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows."

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Source : "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

Joseph Gurney Cannon

#Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
“In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”
“If we took 75% of the worldâ€™s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies â€” with their animal cohorts â€” in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.”
“The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.”

Source : FaceBook post by Camilla Belle from Feb 16, 2012
“Some truths are seen better through tears.”
“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.”

Source : FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 22, 2013
“Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.”

Source : "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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