"This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Spirit Quotes #Fitting Quotes #Aids Quotes

“The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.”
“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love? â€œDonâ€™t have to. Heâ€™s already there.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.358, Scholastic Inc.
“And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “The Lost Years”, p.65, Penguin
“Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.”
“The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.”
“Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.”
“The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.”

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