"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.”
“If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.”
“I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.”
“For visions come not to polluted eyes.”

Source : ..... Fisher, Fisher, Son, & Co, Mary Howitt, L.E.L. (1841). “Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book: With Poetical Illustrations”, p.23
“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”

Source : "'Who's Killing Philly Public Schools?': Daniel Denvir on Plan for School Closings, Privatization". www.truth-out.org. May 25, 2012.
“Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.”
“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”
“Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.”

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