"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Children Quotes #Truth Quotes #Pride Quotes

“If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.”
“When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.”
“A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.”

Source : "There Ought Not to Be a Law" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2003.
“Rent' was my first professional job, ever.”
“When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.”
“Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.”

Source : "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.
“I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.”
“Know when your space is too small for you...and you have to birthed to the next level!”

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