"Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact."

-- Stephen Leigh

#Summer Quotes #Flames Quotes #Water Quotes

“I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.”
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

Source : "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, April 30, 2008.
“The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.”
“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
“Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.”
“If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.”
“I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.”

Source : "Christine Quinn, Gay NYC Mayoral Candidate, Says LGBT Community Is Behind Her" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.
“There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.”

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