"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."

-- Mother Jones

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Men Quotes

“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.”
“Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.”
“If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. â€¦ A gnawing burns inside â€¦ to make something of myself worth giving.”
“You don’t need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because that same stress causes you to put weight on.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc David from Jan 21, 2013
“It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.”
“...the elephant smoked too much.”
“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

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