"It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you."

-- Ira Carmen

#Leadership Quotes #College Quotes #Popular Vote Quotes

“History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.”
“You should never leave something with a feeling of defeat.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.
“Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.”
“Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!”
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.61, Open Road Media
“War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.”
“Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.”
“Decisions exist only in the present.”

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