"You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Life Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Long Quotes

“We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.”

Source : Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”
“A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”
“Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalizedâ€¦ because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackersâ€™ arguments were deeply flawed.”
“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.”
“Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.”
“It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.”
“Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.”

Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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