"The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows."

-- Mary Parker Follett

#Opportunity Quotes #Over You Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
“People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Far away is far away only if you don't go there.”
“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”
“Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.”
“People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.”

Source : "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment”
“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”

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