"All crises, once averted, become jokes."

-- Edan Lepucki

#Crisis Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.”
“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”
“'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight report states. 'Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.'”
“Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.”

Source : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2007). “Agent of Change”, p.29, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.”
“I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.”
“If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.”
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?”

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