"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have."

-- Eileen Collins

#Air Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan
“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
“Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.”
“If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with”
“Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applauseâ€”and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.”

Source : Victor Davis Hanson (2010). “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.”

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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