"Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable."

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Madeleine M. Kunin

#Safe Quotes #Action Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for [our kids] and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!”
“In choosing a course of action, it's best to take the tack of kindness.”
“In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.”

Source : "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.
“Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with”
“The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.”
“When in doubt, go for the dick joke.”
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

Source : Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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