"I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved."

-- Alice Walker

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #World Quotes

“National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.”
“I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.”

Source : "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.
“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”
“Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.23, Penguin
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.”
“If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.”

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