"It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country."

-- Jon Meacham

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.”
“Youâ€™re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.”
“Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press
“Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems”
“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”
“Man is created for the glory of God.”
“You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

Source : "Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 11, 2013.
“During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.”

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