"The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses."

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Source : Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”

Paul Gruchow

#Song Quotes #Two Quotes #Safety Quotes

“Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.”
“If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”
“Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic
“I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.”
“One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.”
“I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of BjÃ¶rn TÃ¼roque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.”
“We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?”

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