"I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over."

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Source : "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

Rickie Lee Jones

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain â€“ and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

Source : Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux
“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.”
“The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1851). “The Harmony of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial”, p.63
“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

Source : "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
“Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.”
“Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.”
“College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.”

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