"California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings."

-- Michiko Kakutani

#Children Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Land Quotes

“There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.”

Source : "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.
“What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.”
“Irreverence is our only sacred cow.”

Source : Paul Krassner (2011). “One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist”, p.22, Seven Stories Press
“What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.”

Source : Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.88, Penguin
“Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.”

Source : "House group secretly crafts immigration plan". www.politico.com.
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”
“There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.”
“We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.”

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