"Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates."

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Source : "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

Arthur C. Brooks

#Optimistic Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Talking Quotes

“The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.”
“There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books
“The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.”
“The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.”
“Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.”
“If you gave kids peas that didnâ€™t look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, theyâ€™re much more apt to eat them because itâ€™s now playtime,”

Source : "Digital Cooking: 3-D Food Printers". bigthink.com.
“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”
“Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 22, 2006.

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