"Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!"

-- Langston Hughes

#Lying Quotes #Rivers Quotes #America Quotes

“I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?”
“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....”
“What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.”
“I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.”
“When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.”
“Computers are like a bicycle for our minds”
“From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.”
“Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.”

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