"That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ..."

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Tillie Olsen

#Peace Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.”
“What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.”

Source : "Fictional character: Wally". "Force of Evil", www.imdb.com. 1948.
“When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money." So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.”
“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.”
“I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it,”
“The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.”
“The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future generations will be weighed down by interest and repayment burdens, even if the money has been frittered away in some frivolous way, embezzled or used for weapons to suppress the country's population.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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