"Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity."

-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Lying Quotes #Omission Quotes #Important Quotes

“Hereâ€™s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn thatâ€””
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.”
“For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”

Source : John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive
“WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.”

Source : Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book”, p.6, Open Road Media
“I've never killed anyone but I've felt the emotion”
“It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.”
“A song is anything that can walk by itself.”

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