"Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry."

-- John Hegley

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“Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.”
“It seems no matter what I read I think this is not harry potter.”

Source : YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Harry Potter Song!", www.youtube.com. November 17, 2010.
“Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.”
“My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.”

Source : "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.
“We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.”
“There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.”
“Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselvesâ€¦. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.16, Regnery Publishing
“A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.”

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