"The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault."

-- Jacques Delors

#Aggravation Quotes #Unions Quotes #May Quotes

“People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.”
“to express himself well, the artist should be hidden... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.”
“When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.”

Source : "The First 100 Days: What Clinton And Trump Want To Get Done" by Scott Horsley, wrvo.org. October 27, 2016.
“The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.”
“Only great and general battles can produce great results”
“God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you.”
“There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.”
“Sometimes when we get our ***** kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.”

Source : Peter Seidel (2009). “2045: A Story of Our Future”

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