"One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Fred Ritchin

#Issues Quotes #Community Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.”
“Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.”

Source : "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.
“They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.”

Source : 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.
“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
“I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.”
“You can't legislate sobriety.”
“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”
“Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, weâ€™re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customersâ€™ expectations every day.”

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