"The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense."

-- Richard Lamm

#Jobs Quotes #People Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.”
“There are some things about myself I canâ€™t explain to anyone. There are some things I donâ€™t understand at all. I canâ€™t tell what I think about things or what Iâ€™m after. I donâ€™t know what my strengths are or what Iâ€™m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So Iâ€™m not such a wonderful human being.”
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
“The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet”

Source : "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.
“The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.”

Source : Geoff Dyer (2014). “Paris Trance: A Romance”, p.95, Macmillan
“While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.”
“I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.”

Source : "The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”

Source : Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.222, Hachette UK

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