"Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose."

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.209, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

#People Quotes #Littles Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.”
“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”

Source : "Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians" by Vernon Bogdanor, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 11, 2007.
“Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldnt fly so far when we hit em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.”
“It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.”

Source : "Angle Admits That Her Suggestion to Shoot Harry Reid Was “A Little Strong.” by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.
“I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.”
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.”
“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”
“Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.”

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