"It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams."

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Source : Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

Gayle Forman

#Dream Quotes #People Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.”

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.
“In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.”
“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.
“So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.”
“Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.”
“Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.”

Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.58, Yale University Press
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press
“Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.”

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