"Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little."

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Source : Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

Erick Erickson

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.”
“Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.”
“The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”
“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.”
“For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.”
“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.”
“Blessed are the joymakers.”
“Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men”

Source : Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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