"I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense."

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Source : Source: gawker.com

Nick Hanauer

#Thinking Quotes #Wings Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”
“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.”
“I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.”
“I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.”
“There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.”
“Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”
“...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Source : Cara Lockwood (2003). “I Do (But I Don't)”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”

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