"The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival."

-- Margaret Haddix

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Survival Quotes

“There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.”
“Art is the god you have not seen.”

Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.1, Yale University Press
“Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”
“Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: â€œIf this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.â€ My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose youâ€™re not a lady? she says.”
“The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.57, Rutgers University Press
“The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.”
“The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.”

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