"Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically."

-- Barney Frank

#Community Quotes #Principles Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
“The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.”
“The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.”
“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.”
“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

Source : 'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'
“No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.”

Source : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"”
“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.”

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