"People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Our World Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!”
“The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.”
“I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.”

Source : Ed Rollins (1996). “Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics”, Broadway
“I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”
“In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.”
“Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.”
“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”
“I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.”

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