"The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield."

-- Bill McKibben

#Yield Quotes #Law Quotes #Divergent Quotes

“There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.”

Source : Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing
“One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.”
“We always try to mix it up-three-step drop, five-step drop, seven-step drop, naked bootleg. We spread out all these kinds of things to keep the defensive pass rush unbalanced.”
“Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.”
“If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community - then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.”
“I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”

Source : Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.573, Penguin

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