"I always get more applause than votes."

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Source : Norman Thomas (1970). “What are the Answers?: Norman Thomas Speaks to Youth”

Norman Thomas

#Vote Quotes #Applause Quotes

“Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?”
“God save her from annoying Alphas.”
“I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.”
“Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.”
“The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.”
“Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.”
“The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.”

Source : Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.
“Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.”

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