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“Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.”
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“For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.”
Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
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“When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.”
Source : Amanda Palmer (2014). “The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, p.98, Hachette UK
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“Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.”
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“This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.”
Source : Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: Reissued”, p.12, A&C Black
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“People do notice you but they behave normally if you behave normal.”
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“Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.”
Source : "Q&A with Housing Bubble Forecaster Dean Baker". Interview with Leo W. Gerard, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009. 
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“I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.”
Source : "The Draft: Just Say No" by Ron Paul, original.antiwar.com. February 17, 2009.
