"Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce."

-- Molly Ivins

#Rejoice Quotes #Ridicule Quotes

“Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.”
“My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.”
“I still think people will find out that Iâ€™m really not very talented. Iâ€™m really not very good. Itâ€™s all been a big sham.”
“Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.317
“The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream.”
“Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.”
“It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.”
“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.”

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