"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge."

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Source : Julian Bond (1972). “A time to speak, a time to act: the movement in politics”

Julian Bond

#Unemployment Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Periods Quotes

“And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.”
“Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.”
“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
“Hey, I was raised in the church.”
“I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.”
“If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
“Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.”
“The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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