"The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Ideas Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Signals Quotes

“I firmly believe that the Democrats' message of inclusion and opportunity resonates everywhere. When we talk about health care as a right and not a privilege, and the impact of the repeal efforts, that resonates everywhere, because everybody in every ZIP code has benefited in one way, shape or form, and frankly, in terms of under-performance, I think we have all too frequently tended to take some of our core constituencies for granted.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Prisons are the universities of the opposition.”
“Up at the crank of dawn.”
“Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.”
“We're not prisoners of the past.”
“One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.”

Source : Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)
“We are searching for the same thing,â€ Stripey said. â€œHow do you know?â€ Janco asked. â€œI read his mind.â€ The Sitian pointed to Ari. â€œYours was tooâ€¦chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.â€ A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.”
“George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.”

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