"You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since."

-- Upton Sinclair

#Years Quotes #America Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
“Happiness is the best facelift.”
“Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth.”
“If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.”

Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.
“I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.”
“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”
“It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.”
“I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.”

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