"A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare."

-- Robert Payne

#Serious Quotes #Matter Quotes #Riches Quotes

“With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.”
“Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly”

Source : Frederick Mosteller, Stephen E. Fienberg, Robert E. K. Rourke (2013). “Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis”, p.234, Courier Corporation
“Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.”
“I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (1956). “The London years”
“Once I do something, I need to be obsessed - or maybe I don't need to be obsessed, but I get obsessed because that's just the way my brain works - but I need to pay a lot of attention to detail. Because everything counts to me once I do something, even if it's a movie that nobody cares about. That's why I need to choose very well what I want to do. But in real life, when I watch TV or whatever, I guess I'm not that obsessive guy, and I'm pretty boring.”
“I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.”
“In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.247
“What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.”

Source : Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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