"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways."

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Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

Maxine Hong Kingston

#Women Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
“I never think that anything I do is courageous.”

Source : "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 5, 2008.
“You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.”
“I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.”
“Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.”
“Oh, SCULLION? Youâ€™re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?”
“Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.”

Source : "Charles James Fox: A Man for the People" by Loren Reid, (p. 261), 1969.
“They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one of these groups said, 'Well, we never thought it would work.' Are you kidding me?!”

Source : "Ted Cruz 'fixes' Obama" by Lauren Ashburn, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2013.

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