"We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable."

-- Walter Savage Landor

#Sound Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.”
“You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay.”
“Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.29
“Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd
“Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.”
“In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land,”
“IAR is policy, always has been.”

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