"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution."

-- Will Durant

#Views Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Heartbeat Quotes

“We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dudley". "The Bishop's Wife", www.imdb.com. 1947.
“If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.”
“Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'”
“Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014
“The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.”
“... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.”
“Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.”

Source : Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin
“The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.”

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