"Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness."

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Michael Parenti

#Class Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Important Quotes

“Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful.Â IÂ adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home.Â Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.”
“I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.”
“Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.”

Source : "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.
“If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.”
“I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.”
“I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.”
“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
“A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.”

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