"Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it."

-- Michael Yates

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.”
“The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.”
“Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.”

Source : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.”
“It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also think you have to feel like you want to enrich your life, and you want to keep your eyes open, and you want to listen and be a good listener.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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