"My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

James Mercer

#Hate Quotes #Political Quotes #Rhetoric Quotes

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”
“Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.”
“The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time...friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it!”
“You don't put bumper stickers on a Bentley.”
“It feels good to show some courage.”
“He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.”

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