"She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches."

-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Southern Quotes #Tears Quotes #Peaches Quotes

“A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.390, Open Road Media
“The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.”
“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
“Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.”
“One of our deepest needs is to be at home.”
“A basic assumption shapes most Americansâ€™ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isnâ€™t my problem because Iâ€™m not in a union. That assumption is wrong. Even if you arenâ€™t a member, your pay is influenced by the strength or weakness of organized labor. The presence of unions sets off a wage race to the top. Their absence sets off a race to the bottom.”
“It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.”
“Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.”

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