"I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs? How should we restructure the entire tax code? Should we have things like a payroll tax, when jobs are so scarce? They weren't - basically the architecture of our employment law, tax law, all these things were from the 1930s - and I do think that one benefit of Donald Trump, which is not worth it, but one perverse thing is, he has widened the scope of things that we should discuss."

-- Neera Tanden

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.”
“I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud”, p.277, Hachette UK
“This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.”
“That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.”
“It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.”
“Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.”

Source : Yuri Orlov (1991). “Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life”, William Morrow

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