"It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand."

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Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital

Mike Royko

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.”
“Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”

Source : Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.
“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”
“Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.”

Source : "Planets Deserve Better Names". Interview with Stephen P. Craft, www.slate.com. February 23, 2013.
“New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.”
“When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.”
“I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.299
“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.”

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