"Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids."

-- David S. Broder

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
“Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.”
“In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using.”

Source : Guy Cook (2001). “The Discourse of Advertising”, p.1, Psychology Press
“[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.”

Source : "Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo" by Marco Travaglio, 2009.
“Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.”
“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”
“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”
“Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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