"Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return."

-- Christopher Paolini

#Blow Quotes #Mind Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.”
“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”

Source : Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books
“Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.”

Source : "Stop demonizing people who need aid" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2013.
“Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,”
“The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the Constitution of our country was written by men inspired of the Lord God Almighty. Therefore we, as Latter-day Saints, more than any other people, ought to be supporters of the Constitution, and all constitutional law.”
“Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.”
“When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I canâ€™t help but think, You just havenâ€™t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.”
“I've always been pretty athletic.”

Source : "Drew Roy Exclusive Interview FALLING SKIES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2011.

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