"The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals."

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Source : "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

Bruce Babbitt

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“Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.”

Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.50, University of Michigan Press
“Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.”
“Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.”
“The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.”
“The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.”
“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

Source : "Fingersmith". Book by Sarah Waters, February 4, 2002.
“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

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