"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."

-- George Santayana

#Suffering Quotes #Institutions Quotes #Rational Quotes

“Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “In the Afterlight”, p.194, Hachette UK
“If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.”
“My artistic practice always involved diversity to the groups of people in which I would find camaraderie, friendship, colleagues, whereas I feel, to be honest, a lot of those circles were just completely white. I think that's something that's unstated or stated with bravado. That is not anywhere near part my experience, especially as a New Yorker.”
“I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do”
“London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.”
“If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?”
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear”

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