"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the peopleâ€”we the peopleâ€”are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States."

-- Michele Bachmann

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; youâ€™re tearing into the numbers, youâ€™re valuing the businesses, youâ€™re assigning a consolidated value, and hopefully youâ€™re seeing something the market doesnâ€™t see.But now Iâ€™ve learned that thereâ€™s a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.”
“Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.”
“Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.”
“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
“The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.”

Source : R. U. Sirius, Andrei Codrescu (2000). “The revolution: quotations from revolution party chairman R.U. Sirius”
“I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.”
“If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2012). “Pay It Forward”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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