"The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Eugene Jarecki

#Country Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.”
“Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.
“Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.”
“We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?”
“The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.”
“Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.”
“I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.51, Hachette UK
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

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