"The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy."

-- Siobhan Dowd

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.”

Source : Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster
“Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.”
“.."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.." ~E.L.~”
“Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.”
“Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.”
“To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.”

Source : Ten Times One Is Ten ch. 9 (1871)
“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”

Source : "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.
“Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.”

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