"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life."

-- Leon Trotsky

#Vegetarian Quotes #Quaker Quotes #Human Life Quotes

“If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.”
“I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?”
“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional.”

Source : "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.
“Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.”
“I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.”

Source : Source: www.scholastic.com
“Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.”
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
“I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.”

Source : "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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