"The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics â€¦ restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this â€¦ as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound."

-- John Pintard

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Class Quotes

“May the God of your choice bless you.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (2007). “You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“When you have a flaming hot donut in your hand and your trying to eat it your not worried about 10 and 2”
“Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.
“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011
“I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.”
“We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.”
“I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.”
“Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.”

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