"If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Carl Hart

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“Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.”
“A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.”

Source : Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”
“I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while”
“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!”
“Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.”

Source : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation
“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”
“Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 04, 2016
“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”

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