"Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part."

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Source : Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

Katherine Applegate

#Waste Quotes #Toss Quotes #Bananas Quotes

“An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.”
“What would I do if I wasn't afraid?”
“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs â€” in time, in space, and in potential â€” the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
“Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right”
“If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.”
“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”
“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.”

Source : Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2004). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”, p.26, Regnery Publishing

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