"there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate."

-- Marjorie Hillis

#Differences Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cleansing Quotes

“a dream is only a memory of the future”

Source : Steve Erickson (1999). “The Sea Came in at Midnight”, Avon Books
“I don't like hype cluttering art.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.”
“I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.”

Source : "The Adolescent Mind of Washingtonienne" by Juliet Eastland, www.alternet.org. October 20, 2004.
“I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.”
“It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.”
“[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.”
“We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh....”

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