"When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'"

-- Clay Shirky

#Cat Quotes #Talking Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.”
“I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.”
“The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.”
“It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Great Mistake”, p.282, Overamstel Uitgevers
“We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins
“There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.”
“Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.”

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