"Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes."

-- Joe Conason

#Patriotic Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Two Quotes

“We must not be anything other than what we are.”

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company
“My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.”
“It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!”
“Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.”

Source : Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK
“The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.”
“The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.”

Source : William Bartram (1792). “Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates”, p.8
“A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies”

Source : Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.519, Simon and Schuster
“Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.”

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