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“While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.”
Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”, p.19
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“Progressive policies are harming the Black community.”
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“Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.”
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“What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort.”
Source : "The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff".
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“For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.”
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“Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.”
Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.30, Harriman House Limited
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“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
Source : Women and Economics ch. 1 (1898)
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“The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.”
Source : "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011. 
