"Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire."

-- Jim Cooper

#Oxygen Quotes #Blood Quotes #Law Quotes

“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
“People don't choose or own cats. Cats choose the people they want to own.”
“Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.”

Source : "Obituary". The Economist, (p. 107), November 6, 2010.
“If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.”
“He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. â€œWe both know Iâ€™m not a gentleman.â€ â€œYeah. Okay, let me out. Iâ€™m tired.â€ â€œThereâ€™s something else,â€ he said, and I groaned. â€œWhat now?â€ â€œThis.â€ He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers were sandwiched between us. His eyes looked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion. â€œOh, no, you donâ€™t!â€ I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hard against his chest; it was like shoving a tree. â€œYes,â€ he said very softly, leaning down. â€œYes, I do.”
“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
“Tenderness is the infancy of love.”
“If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.”

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