"In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution."

-- Kevin Drum

#Political Revolution Quotes #America Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”
“Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

Source : John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”
“As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.”
“I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.”
“I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."”
“Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.”
“The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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